"In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that the book will contain as it were the general structure of the universe. In the remaining books I relate the motions of the remaining stars, and all the spheres, to the mobility of the Earth, so that it can be thence established how far the motions and appearances of the remaining stars and spheres can be saved, if they are referred to the motions of the Earth."

-- Nicolaus Copernicus

#Stars Quotes #Book Quotes #Mobility Quotes

“Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'”
“Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.105, Northwestern University Press
“You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.”

Source : "Rahul Dravid: a Gentleman Player". news.bbc.co.uk. March 07, 2008.
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
“I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.”

Source : Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.
“The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.”
“...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.”
“I don't think I should be underestimated.”

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