"Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun."
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"Make hay while the sun is still shining."
"You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take."
"The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets."
"There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness."
"Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets."
"Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest."
"The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before."
"Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun."
"Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them."
"He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking."
"We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow."
"There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back."
"A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life."
"Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly."
"I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious."
"You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun."
"When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?"
"Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one."
"If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun."