"When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth."

Earth, Effect, Sun

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"When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth."

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

John Jay Chapman, American Poet

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"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth."

Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch Mathematician

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"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide."

Lynette Fromme, American Criminal

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"From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left."

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"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."

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"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty."

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"Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted."

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"Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin."

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"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."

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"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."

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"Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies."

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"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion."

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"Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light."

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