"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."

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"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."

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

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

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Paris Hilton, American Celebrity

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

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"No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?"

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"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."

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"Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics."

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"I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected."

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"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."

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"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."

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"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."

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"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun."

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"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."

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"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."

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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

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