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Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveile...

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As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry,...

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We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

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All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still

. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate ...

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...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bo...

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Samuel R. DelanyThe Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, kn...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so...

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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

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But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one...

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Ernst MachThe Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynam...

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Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter ...

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God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other pri...

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Isaac NewtonThe Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Published for the Royal Society. VOLUMES 1 through 7

The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turn...

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James Prescott JouleThe Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule - Volume 1

Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sor...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfiel...

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