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After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about...… — Richey Edwards
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school"… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise… — R. S. Thomas
Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and… — Unknown Author
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I… — Unknown Author
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when… — Gaston Bachelard
In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams… — Khalil Gibran
Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers. — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it. — Rajneesh
We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to… — Chiara Lubich
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams? — Wallace Stevens
The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good. — Gregory of Nyssa
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. — Hannah Arendt
I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer… — Cathy Freeman
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you… — Walt Whitman
Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To… — Paulo Freire
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all. — George Eliot
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not… — Danny Glover
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than… — James Madison
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths. — Thomas Cole

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