"By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough……" — John Updike
"By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
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More Caps Quotes
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I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
— Rodney Atkins
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When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to…
— Michele Bachmann
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You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the…
— Lewis Black
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I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's…
— John Boehner
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When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and…
— Christina Aguilera
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When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear…
— Bill Bryson
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Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played…
— Sholom Aleichem
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
— Abraham Cahan
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Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that…
— Steve Carell
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Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to…
— David Cameron
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Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.
— Pedro
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