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“That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.”

People Has Beens Real Hard Body Law Science Given Heaven Simple Planets Machines Rounds Various Obstacles Labour Spheres Fluid Circuits Impervious

Author:Tycho Brahe

“If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.”

Ifs Men Giving Said Care Together Law Given Born He Man Return One Day Cooking Property Rounds Tiny Mortals Extras Pot Alas Neighbour Borrowed Offspring

Book:The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin

Source: The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin

“"One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are - ha!" - Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe - "no more than robots!"”

People May Children Long Done Jobs Law Pleasure Advantage Tables Blind Rounds Obedience Robots Pipe Drones Blind Obedience

Author:Iain Banks

“The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.”

Way Hard Reason Helping Law Lines Too Much Groups Concerned Rounds Lawyer Supposed To Be Wheels Devices Serving Civilized Firing Friction Squad Guillotine

Author:Fred Rodell

“Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.”

Source: Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

“Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.”

Men Giving Should Whole Law Lines Attention Building Draws Standards Raises Rounds Circles Fixed Anxious Centre Monk Recollection Arches Vaults

Book:John Cassian Collection [4 Books]

Source: John Cassian Collection [4 Books]