"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

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"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

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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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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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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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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."

Nelson Goodman, American Philosopher

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."

Philippe Perrin, French Astronaut

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"Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook."

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"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place."

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"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."

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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."

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"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."

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"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."

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"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

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"There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by."

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"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."

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"The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at."

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