Dava Sobel quotes
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“And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.”
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“Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.”
-- Dava Sobel
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“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”
Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com
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“And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.”
Source : Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.20
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“I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.”
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“Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.”
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