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Earth Quotes
"The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?"
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"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
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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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"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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"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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"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."
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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
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"I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?"
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"There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them."
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"Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe."
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"But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers."
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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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"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."
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"I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor."
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"Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth."
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"But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth."
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"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
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"I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out."
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"That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth."
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"It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift."
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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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"If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil."
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"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
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"A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth."
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"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."
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"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be."
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"However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!"
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"Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun."
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"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash."
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"You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle."
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