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

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

Lord Byron, British Poet

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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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"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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"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."

Truth

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

Opportunity

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

Certainty

"For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study."

History

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

First

"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."

Men

"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."

Father

"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."

Rest

"Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure."

Art