"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."

John Lennon, English Musician

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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

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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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"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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"I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

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"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."

Ilchi Lee, South Korean Author

Earth, Unity, Peace, Humanity

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"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance."

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"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."

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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."

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"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."

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"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses."

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"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

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"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."

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"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."

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