The earth is moved from its ...

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.