The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
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I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
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With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times… — Zhuge Liang Copy Share Image
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
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The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
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No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense… — Ron Silliman Copy Share Image
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I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
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I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
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