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"Near the sun is the center of the universe."
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"You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search."
"I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you."
Sun,
"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."
"The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow."
"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud."
Sun,
"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
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"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
"Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions."
"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."
"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."
"I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected."
"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."
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
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