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• Señor, si desea hacerse una idea exacta de la magnitud de esta ciudad, no debe conformarse con ver sus grandes calles y plazas, sino que debe examinar las innumerables callejuelas y patios. La maravillosa inmensidad de Londres no radica en las vistosas evoluciones de los edificios, sino en la multiplicidad de viviendas humanas que se amontonan.

  Samuel Johnson

  Squares, Cities, Together

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.72

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• India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Thinking, Challenges, India

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• Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

  Jacques Monod

  Writing, Science, Destiny

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• I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Hero, Journey

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 7, 1842.

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• It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.

  Piedra Merlín

  Women, Cutting, Years

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• La navegación es un poder limitado que nos permite gestionar la inmensidad del torrente mediático.

  Todd Gitlin

  Medios, Navegación, Gestión

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• En la vastedad del espacio y la inmensidad del tiempo, es para mí una alegría compartir un planeta y una época con Annie.

  Carl Sagan

  Tiempo, espacio, alegría

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). "Conversations with Carl Sagan", p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Nuestro Sol es una de las 100.000 millones de estrellas de nuestra galaxia. Nuestra galaxia es una de los miles de millones de galaxias que pueblan el universo. Sería el colmo de la presunción pensar que somos el único ser vivo en esa enorme inmensidad.

  Wernher von Braun

  Estrellas, Pensar, Serían

  1960 En el NewYork Times, 29 abr.

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• The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Book, Love Is, Sea

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.

  Winifred Holtby

  Congratulations, Race, Ignorant

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• God's love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it.

  John H. Groberg

  Space, Needed, Feels

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• If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Heaven

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• Le encantaban las montañas, o le había encantado pensar en ellas marchando al borde de historias traídas de muy lejos; pero ahora se sentía agobiado por el peso insoportable de la Tierra Media. Ansiaba aislarse de la inmensidad en una habitación tranquila junto al fuego.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Marching On, Mountain

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). "El Señor de los Anillos: One Volume", p.536, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us ... He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for our sins, purchasing us the only place our hearts can rest, in His Father's house. Knowing He did this will transform us from the inside out.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Heart

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.33, Penguin

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• The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Lying, Emotional, Space

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). "A Krutch Omnibus: Cuarenta años de crítica social y literaria"

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• Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

  Martin Gardner

  Crazy, Humility, Science

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• Descanso suficiente para el hombre individual, demasiado y demasiado pronto, y lo llamamos muerte. Pero para el hombre, no hay descanso ni final. Debe continuar, conquista más allá de la conquista. Primero este pequeño planeta y todos sus vientos y caminos, y luego todas las leyes de la mente y la materia que lo restringen. Luego los planetas a su alrededor y, por último, a través de las inmensidades hasta las estrellas. Y cuando haya conquistado todo el espacio profundo y todos los misterios del tiempo, seguirá siendo el principio.

  H. G. Wells

  Tiempo, Estrellas, Hombres

  "Personaje de ficción: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", www.imdb.com. 1936.

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• Armadas con todos los poderes, disfrutando de toda la riqueza que deben a la ciencia, nuestras sociedades siguen intentando practicar y enseñar sistemas de valores ya destruidos de raíz por esa misma ciencia. El hombre sabe por fin que está solo en la inmensidad indiferente del universo, del que ha surgido por azar. Su deber, como su destino, no está escrito en ninguna parte.

  Jacques Monod

  Destino, Ciencia, Hombres

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• Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.

  Charles Lapworth

  Science, Two, Earth

  Proceedings of the Geological Survey of London. "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Carl C. Gaither, p. 873, 2012.

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• It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

  P. D. James

  Stars, Intelligent, Credit

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.14, Vintage

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• Quienes aspiran a la condición de individuos cultos visitan las librerías con inquietud, abrumados por la inmensidad de todo lo que no han leído. Compran algo que les han dicho que es bueno, intentan leerlo sin éxito y, cuando han acumulado media docena de libros sin leer, se sienten tan mal que temen comprar más. En cambio, los verdaderamente cultos son capaces de poseer miles de libros sin leer sin perder la compostura ni las ganas de más.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Libro, Deseo, Mitad

  Gabriel Zaid "Tantos libros: Leer y publicar en la era de la abundancia", Paul Dry Books

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• Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does God. We begin to mourn for and hate it. In other words, at the cross God becomes larger and we become smaller. This separation is at the heart of the fear of God. This "fear" opens God's wisdom to us because only in light of God's immensity can I see the importance of living for the right end, his glory. And only in the light of my smallness can I feel overawed by the means he used to save me, his cross.

  William F. Farley

  Hate, Mean, Heart

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• There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.

  Giordano Bruno

  Stars, Science, Space

  "Sobre el universo y los mundos infinitos". Libro de Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And the eye can wander through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside— Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky— But only spirit wandering wide Through infinite immensity.

  Emily Bronte

  Home, Eye, Moon

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