"Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth."

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Source : Quoted in Pappus, Synagoge

Archimedes

#Graduation Quotes #Determination Quotes #Moving Quotes

“My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.”
“While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.”
“From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.”
“In 2004, we had a great year, with Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Alistair Cook. Some groups are not quite as strong.”
“I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.”
“...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home.”
“As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that powerâ€™s always zero sum â€” my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.”
“If I love a song, I make it mine.”

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