"The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it."

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"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."

Ted Shackelford, American Actor

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"It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon."

Kate Chopin, American Author

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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

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"Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow."

Li Po, Chinese Poet

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"To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole."

Randy Bachman, Canadian Musician

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"I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus."

Sarah Zettel, American Author

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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

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"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian Author

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"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."

"I'm the audience's representative on earth."

"It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon."

"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."

"Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow."

"To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole."

"I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus."

"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

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"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."

"Remarks are not literature."

"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."

"Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so."

"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."