"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."

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John Green, American Author

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Henry Miller, American Author

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Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."

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"Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day."

John Piper, American Clergyman

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"I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup."

Spalding Gray, American Actor

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"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."

Truth

"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."

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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."

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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

Certainty

"For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study."

History

"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."

Earth

"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."

First

"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."

Men

"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."

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"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."

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