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«The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Universe,
World
| Keywords:
bunch, bunches, depending, depending on, grapes, on it, planets, revolve, revolves, revolve around, revolving, ripen, ripened, ripens, The Planets
«The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion»
«The whole world is run on bluff»
«The real world is complex and sometimes none of the choices we have are good ones. If Attila the Hun is coming through, it's not a matter of being moral. It's kill or be killed.»
Author: Theodore Postol
| About:
Choice,
World
| Keywords:
Attila, Attila the Hun, Hun, Huns, real world, The Hun, The Real World
«The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun»
«The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Humanity,
Travel,
World
| Keywords:
actor, know nothing, restaurants, satisfying, spectator, The Restaurant, trains, traveller
«The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Progress,
Reason,
World
| Keywords:
adapt, adapting, adapts, depends, persisting, persists, reasonable, Reasonable man, unreasonable
«The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.»
«The whole world is my native land»
«The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
History,
Justice,
World
| Keywords:
History of, History of the, History of the world, nations, no longer, summed, sum up
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