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Earth Quotes
"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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"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
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"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."
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"We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab."
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"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
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"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."
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"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."
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"I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest."
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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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"That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth."
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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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"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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"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
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"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"
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"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."
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"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves."
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"Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion."
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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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"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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"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
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"Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly."
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"The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth."
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