"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do."

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Source : William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

Nicolaus Copernicus

#Long Quotes #Advisors Quotes #Length Quotes

“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.”
“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
“I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.”
“Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.”
“Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.”
“Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.”
“Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.”
“God has given you this good stuff so that you can show the world a person who enjoys blessings, but who is still totally obsessed with God.”

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