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Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each. -- Thomas Young
Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the Planets and Comets in all manner of Courses through the Heavens. -- Isaac Newton
The soul has many motions, body one. -- Theodore Roethke
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. -- Alexander Calder
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her. -- D. H. Lawrence
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. -- A. R. Ammons
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions. -- Rahman Baba
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? -- John Donne
There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions. -- Michael Phelps
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. -- Bryant H. McGill
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. -- Peter Fenn
When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit. -- Phil McGraw
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. -- Pierre Trudeau
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos. -- Nita Ambani
There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions. -- Wale
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. -- Frederick Law Olmsted
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again. -- Matt Taibbi
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats. -- Ken Goldberg
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. -- Saint Augustine
Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing. -- Michael Azerrad
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy. -- Saint Ambrose
The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn't put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow's peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux. -- Joe Flaherty
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Never confuse motions with action. -- Ernest Hemingway
I go through the motions of living in society -- Wendy Rose
I don't want people to remember me going through the motions. -- Bobby Rahal
God alone is the author of all the motions in the world. -- Rene Descartes
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings. -- Jonathan Edwards
Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute? -- Henry David Thoreau
The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow. -- Richard Jefferies
I like the physicality in doing the different physical motions, being a beast. -- Sendhil Ramamurthy
Photographers are artists, they capture and bring emotion in the motions of life. -- Unarine Ramaru
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I tried synchronized swimming, but felt, over time, I was just going through the motions. -- Dana Gould
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite. -- Anais Nin
All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute. -- John Joly
Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions! -- George W. Crane
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions. -- John Irving
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. -- Isaac Newton
There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions. -- Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted. -- John Milton
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person. -- John Piper
Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions. -- Tom Robbins
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. -- Louis Pasteur
How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around! -- Michel de Montaigne
You weren't created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive. -- Joel Osteen
Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters. -- Kamala Harris
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options. -- Aristotle
One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought? -- Friedrich Engels
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip. -- Bill Ayers
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip." -- Bill Ayers
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear. -- Richard Jefferies
I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger. -- Doug Cooper
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. -- Evelyn Waugh
There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters. -- Vince Young
For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused. -- Lucretius
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. -- Ambrose Bierce
Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see. -- John D. Barrow
The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work. -- Kristine Lilly
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled. -- Gore Vidal
I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints. -- Carson Palmer
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again. -- Charles de Lint
No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be. -- Queen Latifah
Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions. -- Anna Paskevska
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order. -- Alexander Pope
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated. -- Isaac Newton
You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions. -- Marita Bonner
In Hollywood, you're always playing roles... It's like going through the motions. But in real life, it's like, you gotta take care of business. It's not just the movies. -- Mickey Rourke
In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound -- Edgar Allan Poe
His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woman who would probably be unable to keep her balance. -- Terry Pratchett
But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be. -- Robert Bridges
The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations. -- Emmanuel Mounier
In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine. -- Morris Kline
Spirit, faith, and positive energy are the core of human life, without them you lose your way. You live without Zest. You go through the motions but there's no passion -- Lee Bolman
The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions. -- Joseph Hall
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. -- Francis Bacon
The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity. -- Steven Storm
It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy. -- Marcus Aurelius
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars. -- Andrea M. Ghez
The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. -- Johannes Kepler
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L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love. -- Sydney Samuelson
This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are. -- John Wesley
The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things. -- Apolo Ohno
I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not. -- Jef Raskin
I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I'm still going through the motions. -- Ross MacDonald
I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution. -- Dan Savage
Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Forever, nor eternally entomb The welfare of the world; nor, further, can Those motions that give birth to things and growth Keep them forever when created there. -- Lucretius

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