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  • Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Moving Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Plato Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Men Quotes
  • In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Class Quotes
  • The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Party Quotes , Cutting Quotes