"Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."

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"Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."

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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

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"The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it."

Dennis Weaver, American Actor

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

Paris Hilton, American Celebrity

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"But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth."

Tim LaHaye, American Clergyman

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"It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

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"Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth."

Laurel Clark, American Astronaut

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"You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have."

Jeff Rich, American Explorer

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"Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth."

Edward Burnett Tylor, English Scientist

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"Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian Scientist

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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."

Robert Crippen, American Astronaut

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"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."

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"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"

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"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."

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"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."

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"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

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"The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience."

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"Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together."

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"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."

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"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."

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