"A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity."

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Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.116, University of Chicago Press

Hermann von Helmholtz

#Moving Quotes #Body Quotes #Retarded Quotes

“Thereâ€™s 3 types of fans. Thereâ€™s the ones that scream, the ones that want to talk to you and the ones that donâ€™t speak at all.”
“Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed”
“We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (2011). “Home Fires”, p.137, Macmillan
“Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.”
“For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.”

Source : "Former Israeli PM looks at Iran crisis". www.cnn.com. May 5, 2012.
“A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.”
“... God... is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man...”
“I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.”

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