"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."

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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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"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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"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

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"The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth."

Wilfred Grenfell, Welsh Activist

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"Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here."

Robert M. Fresco, American Screenwriter

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"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."

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"The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature."

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"It takes a long time to understand nothing."

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"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."

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"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent."

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"Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake."

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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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."

"A strong foe is better than a weak friend."

"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."

"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."

"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."

"The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature."

"It takes a long time to understand nothing."

"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."

"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent."

"Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake."