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"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
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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)."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
"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."
"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."
"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."
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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."
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do."
"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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