Quotes with celestial-mechanics

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  • John Milton Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Kelvin Throop III Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Henry Miller I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Alan Parsons I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Al Unser I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.
    Al Unser
    American automobile racing driver (1939 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Billy West It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • George Washington Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Camille Paglia Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Gay Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Margaret Mitchell The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Daniel Defoe Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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