"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"

Earth, Future, Months, Now

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"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"

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"That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb."

Kathy Mattea, American Musician

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"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."

Clifford D. Simak, American Writer

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"This is Earth. Isn't it hot?"

Paris Hilton, American Celebrity

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"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

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"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."

Thomas More, English Author

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"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."

Maurice Strong, Canadian Businessman

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"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

Harold Pinter, English Dramatist

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"It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift."

William Graham Sumner, American Businessman

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"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."

Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist

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"We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst."

Daley Thompson, English Athlete

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"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."

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"We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer."

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"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."

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"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

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"On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!"

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"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

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"Liberty is worth paying for."

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"Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls."

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"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"

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