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Edward Dahlberg

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

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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."

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"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."

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"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."

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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."

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"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."

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