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• You can't take sides when you know the earth is round. -- Patricia Su
• To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury
  and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony....
• Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth
  While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole....
• A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly.
  If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. -- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the sta...
• Again, our observations of the stars make it evident, not only that the earth is circular, but also that it is a circle of no great size.
  For quite a small change of position to south or north causes a manifest alteration of the horizon....
• The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heave
  un, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion....
• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• Skinner: Now I have learned that most of the orchestra is having their appendixes removed
  o without further ado, I give you the remnants of the Springfield Elementary School Orchestra...