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Galileo Galilei : Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. # Politicians and Politics

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George Santayana : " Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. " # Politicians and Politics

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Galileo Galilei : " Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. " # Politicians and Politics

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William M Thackeray : " I would rather make my name than inherit it. " # Politicians and Politics

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Siegfried Sassoon : " Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride 'Their name liveth for evermore' the Gateway claims. Was ever an immolation so belied As these intolerably nameless names? Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime. " # Politicians and Politics

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Samuel Beckett : " To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. " # Politicians and Politics

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Jon Postel : " A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there. " # Politicians and Politics

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Alice Meynell : " Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. " # Politicians and Politics

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Chinese Proverb : " The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. " # Politicians and Politics

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Robert Penn Warren : " I longed to know the world's name. " # Politicians and Politics

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Dorothy Parker : " I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. " # Politicians and Politics

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Nader Shureih : " God is the name we give our conscience. " # Politicians and Politics

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Galileo Galilei: " All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them." # Truth

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Galileo Galilei: " You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." # Teachers and Teaching

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Galileo Galilei: " I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." # Forgiveness # God # Reason

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Galileo Galilei: " Doubt is the father of invention." # Doubt

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Galileo Galilei: " Wine is "light held together by moisture."" # Alcohol and Alcoholism

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Galileo Galilei: " I cannot without great wonder, nay more, disbelief, hear it being attributed to natural bodies as a great honor and perfection that they are impassable, immutable, inalterable, etc.: as conversely, I hear it esteemed a great imperfection to be alterable, generable, and mutable. It is my opinion that the earth is very noble and admirable by reason of the many and different alterations, mutations, and generations which incessantly occur in it. And if, without being subject to any alteration, it had been one great heap of sand, or a mass of jade, or if, since the time of the deluge, the waters freezing which covered it, it had continued an immense globe of crystal, wherein nothing had ever grown, altered, or changed, I should have esteemed it a wretched lump of no benefit to the Universe, a mass of idleness, and in a word superfluous, exactly as if it had never been in Nature. The difference for me would be the same as between a living and a dead creature. I say the same concerning the Moon, Jupiter, and all the other globes of the Universe. The more I delve into the consideration of the vanity of popular discourses, the more empty and simple I find them. What greater folly can be imagined than to call gems, silver, and gold noble, and earth and dirt base? For do not these persons consider that if there were as great a scarcity of earth as there is of jewels and precious metals, there would be no king who would not gladly give a heap of diamonds and rubies and many ingots of gold to purchase only so much earth as would suffice to plant a jessamine in a little pot or to set a tangerine in it, that he might see it sprout, grow up, and bring forth such goodly leaves, fragrant flowers, and delicate fruit? It is scarcity and plenty that makes things esteemed and despised by the vulgar, who will say that there is a most beautiful diamond, for it resembles a clear water, and yet would not part from it for ten tons of water. These men who so extol incorruptibility, inalterability, and so on, speak thus, I believe, out of the great desire they have to live long and for fear of death, not considering that, if men had been immortal, they would not have come into the world. These people deserve to meet with a Medusa's head that would transform them into statues of diamond and jade, that so they might become more perfect than they are." # Imagination # Love # Death and Dying

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Galileo Galilei: " It now remains that we find the amount of time of descent through the channel. This we shall obtain from the marvelous property of the pendulum, which is that it makes all its vibrations, large or small, in equal times. This requires, once and for all, that two or three or four patient and curious friends, having noted a fixed star that stands against some fixed marker, taking a pendulum of any length, shall go counting its vibrations during the whole time of return of the fixed star to its original point, and this will be the number of vibrations in 24 hours. From the number of these we can find the number of vibrations of any other pendulums, longer or shorter, at will, so that if for example those counted by us in 24 hours were 234,567, then taking another shorter pendulum with which one counts 800 vibrations while another counts 150 of the longer pendulum, we already have, by the golden rule, the number of vibrations for the whole time of 24 hours; and if we want to know the time of descent through the channel, we can easily find not only the minutes, seconds, and sixtieths of seconds, but beyond that as we please. It is true that we can pass a more exact measure by having observed the flow of water through a thin passage, for by collecting this and having weighed what passes in one minute, for example, then by weighing what passes in the time of descent through the channel we can find the most exact measure and quantity of this time, especially by making use of a balance so precise as to weigh one sixtieth of a grain." # Age and Aging # Friends and Friendship # Life and Living

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Galileo Galilei: " (speaking as Salviati)...In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads. Such arguments in support of their fixed idea as they hit upon themselves or hear set forth by others, no matter how simple and stupid these may be, gain their instant acceptance and applause. On the other hand whatever is brought forward against it, however ingenious and conclusive, they receive with disdain or with hot rage--if indeed it does not make them ill. Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries. (translated by Stillman Drake, 2001 Modern Library Paperback Edition, p. 322)." # Life and Living # Love # Action

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Galileo Galilei: " Whence do you have it that the terrestrial globe is so heavy? For my part, either I do not know what heaviness is, or the terrestrial globe is neither heavy nor light, as likewise all other globes of the universe. Heaviness to me (and I believe to Nature) is that innate tendency by which a body resists being moved from its natural place and by which, when forcibly removed therefrom, it spontaneously returns there. Thus a bucketful of water raised on high and set free, returns to the sea; but who will say that the same water remains heavy in the sea, when being set free there, does not move?" # Action # Freedom # Love

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Galileo Galilei: " It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve" # Nature # Love # Ability

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