One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us. -- Nancy Roman

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When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.