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“The centre of gravity of any hemisphere is its axis, and divides the said straight line in such a way that the portion of it adjacent to the surface of the hemisphere has to the remaining portion the ratio which 5 has to 3.”

“The Works Of Archimedes”

“Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.”

“Archimedes' On The Measurement Of The Circle”

“Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.”

“Archimedes' Book of Lemmas”

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"You can go home. You can go out of Europe. You can go wherever the hell you want."

— Guðmundur Benediktsson

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"Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners fo…"

— Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

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