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Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. -- Matthew Shipp
When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. -- Chuck Palahniuk
In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water. -- Robert Fludd
His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing? -- Matthew Shipp
Leave women to find their sphere. -- Lucy Stone
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. -- Winston Churchill
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. -- Blaise Pascal
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. -- Georg Simmel
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -- Albert Einstein
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. -- Brigham Young
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. -- Zhuangzi
Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture. -- John Piper
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. -- Robert H. Schuller
I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line. -- Stephen Hawking
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance. -- Nikola Tesla
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. -- Annie Jump Cannon
People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.' -- Daisaku Ikeda
It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat. -- Pico Iyer
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life. -- Charles Spurgeon
People have got to get over the fear of not being able to trust others. I come across people who are very successful in their own sphere, and really believe they can do it all themselves, but they can't. -- Kevin McCloud
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way. -- Cate Blanchett
Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles. -- James E. Faust
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be. -- Ann Plato
Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy. -- Michael Anti
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue. -- Terry Eagleton
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile. -- Colm Toibin
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary. -- Louis Sullivan
In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
An artist's sphere of influence is the world. -- Carl Maria von Weber
Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural. -- Edward Westermarck
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere? -- Oscar Wilde
Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. -- John Sullivan Dwight
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. -- William Shakespeare
The world is a sphere, there is no East or West. -- Ai Weiwei
The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility. -- Radhanath Swami
That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia. -- Herman Melville
Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead. -- Dabbs Greer
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. -- Henry Ward Beecher
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere... -- Emily Bronte
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere. -- Paul Cezanne
For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere -- Henry Vaughan
The cube and the sphere are the sole working tools of creation -- Walter Russell
The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence -- Sunday Adelaja
The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action. -- Swami Prabhavananda
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism -- Francis Parker Yockey
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism. -- Francis Parker Yockey
No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. -- Thomas Mann
To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. -- Nikola Tesla
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman. -- Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. -- Paul Cezanne
We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty. -- Rudolph Rummel
God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution. -- Ellen Key
Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere. -- Herbert Schiller
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. -- Blaise Pascal
There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want. -- Tim Ferriss
Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. -- Diane Cilento
Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion. -- Julian Huxley
It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence. -- Jordan Dane
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is. -- John Donne
A woman's sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men. -- M. Russell Ballard
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge. -- Vaclav Havel
Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger -- Dennis McKenna
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. -- George Santayana
True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love. -- Christian D. Larson
In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere. -- Mario Monti
The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health. -- Thomas Carlyle
The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore. -- Ai Weiwei
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. -- Benito Mussolini
Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness. -- Jim Goad
Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope. -- Peter Levi
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. -- Rand Paul
Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere. -- Lucy Stone
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere. -- Harold H. Greene
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. -- Terry Eagleton
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. -- James Madison
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. -- Ridley Scott
There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.' -- Abraham Kuyper
Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power. -- Mary Frances Berry
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man. -- Gautama Buddha
Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important. -- Vladimir Putin
God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere. -- Joseph Campbell
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China]. -- Vladimir Putin
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion. -- Sri Chinmoy
Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return. -- Doug Casey
Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me. -- Fabien Barthez
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized. -- Eugenie Scott
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business. -- Helen Fisher
But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities -- David Mazzucchelli
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. -- Aldous Huxley
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice. -- Ayn Rand
Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy. -- William A. Dembski
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery. -- David Hume
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy. -- Queen Victoria
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego. -- Carol Anthony
In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments. -- Anton Chekhov
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. -- Charles Sumner
IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. -- Edward Carpenter
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. -- Nathalie Sarraute
Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level. -- Jaggi Vasudev
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth. -- Bill Nye
Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream. -- D.T. Suzuki
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul! -- Henry Ward Beecher
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. -- Samuel Johnson
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence. -- Malcolm X

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