Carl Sagan Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Lovely Quotes

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

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She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

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When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

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The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

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Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

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Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

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But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

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On this lovely, lovely Hanukkah, drink your gin and tonica.

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Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

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What a lovely thing a rose is!

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One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

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