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"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction."
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"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
"You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going."
"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."
"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things."
"After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive."
"The great thing about redirecting is that if you miss the mark and miss your goal, you can simply change course. When you are heading down a certain path, and feel like you may be heading the wrong way, stop, turn back, redirect, or ask for directions."
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"I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle."
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
"For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study."
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
"Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics."
"Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
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