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Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.

Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.

Martin Laird
Book, Jupiter, Contemplation

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

Henry David Thoreau
Hands, Bravery, Jupiter
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.77, Graphic Arts Books

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

Ovid
Men, Jupiter, Sin

Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.

Norm MacDonald
Believe, Moon, Jupiter

If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moon, Jupiter, Ifs

I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

Edgar Degas
Wall, Artist, Jupiter
Edgar Degas' remark in a conversation with the writer Moore (circa 1875), as quoted in Sue Roe "The Private Lives of the Impressionists" (p. 117), 2006.

"Anybody have money?" Frank checked his pockets. "Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian." Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. "Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and - score! A piece of celery." He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next.

Rick Riordan
Two, Pockets, Jupiter
"The Mark of Athena". Book by Rick Riordan, October 2, 2012.

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

Francis Bacon
Knowledge, Together, Jupiter
Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.40, Lulu.com

Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to worship at the temple of Jupiter. But Horace's poetry has lasted longer than Jupiter's religion, and Jupiter himself has only survived because he disappeared into literature.

Northrop Frye
Long, Jupiter, Literature
Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.447, University of Toronto Press

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

George Washington
Jupiter, Done, Fables
George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.57

Honey, have you seen your sister?” She’s on Jupiter, Mom.

Diane Duane
Mom, Jupiter, Honey
Diane Duane (2002). “The Wizard's Dilemma”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Donald Trump's ego is like a comet the size of Jupiter just traveling through the solar system, and we all have to be affected by its gravitational pull.

David Brooks
Ego, Jupiter, Size
Source: www.pbs.org

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