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Quote by Derek Walcott
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I stu

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I study the stars. – Derek Walcott

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The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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Imagination
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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – Derek Walcott

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Beauty
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. – Plato

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Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge. – John Milton

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Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture. – Jacob Bronowski

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Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas. – Bobby Ray Inman

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