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"I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you."
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"You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search."

"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud."
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"The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow."

"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."
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"For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study."

"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."

"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun."

"Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe."

"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."
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