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"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."

"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Earth, Eyes, Will

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"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."

"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."

Norman Ralph Augustine, American Author

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"Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform."

"Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform."

Matt LeBlanc, American Actor

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"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."

"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."

Daniel Webster, American Statesman

Earth, Interest, Justice, Man

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"It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere."

"It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere."

Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist

Earth, Fact, May

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"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

Harold Pinter, English Dramatist

Earth, Forget, Old, Past

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"Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise."

"Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise."

Tommy Douglas, Canadian Clergyman

Earth, Fish, Paradise, Man

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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."

"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."

Linda M. Godwin, American Astronaut

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"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?"

"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?"

Virgil, Roman Poet

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"I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well."

"I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well."

Bram Stoker, Irish Writer

Earth, Eyes, Lying

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"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."

"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."

Liberty Hyde Bailey, American Scientist

Earth, Force, World

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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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"Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space."

"Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space."

Walter Lang, American Director

Earth, Evolution, Scripture, Space

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"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."

"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."

David Sarnoff, American Inventor

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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."

"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."

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American Journalist

Earth, Nothing, World

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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."

"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."

Theodor Herzl, Hungarian Journalist

Earth, Nation, Rest

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"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."

"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."

Thomas More, English Author

Earth, Heaven, Sorrow

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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."

"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."

George Berkeley, Irish Philosopher

Earth, Heaven, Mind, Word

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"The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it."

"The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it."

Dennis Weaver, American Actor

Earth, Nothing, Universe, Want

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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!"

"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!"

David Douglass, American Physicist

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"But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth."

"But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth."

Tim LaHaye, American Clergyman

Earth, Saints, Will

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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."

"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."

Edward Dahlberg, American Novelist

Earth, Literature

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"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it."

"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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"I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it."

"I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it."

Keith Emerson, British Musician

Earth, Journey, Open, Talking

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"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."

"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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"I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth."

"I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth."

Oliver Reed, English Actor

Earth, Sleep, Woman

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"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."

"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."

Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist

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"There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth."

"There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

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"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."

"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."

Josiah Strong, American Clergyman

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"Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic."

"Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic."

Duane G. Carey, American Astronaut

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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."

"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."

Robert Duncan, American Poet

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"Seek on earth what you have found in heaven."

"Seek on earth what you have found in heaven."

George William Russell, Irish Writer

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"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."

"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Writer

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"Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it."

"Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it."

Joseph Rutherford, American Clergyman

Earth, Man, Reason, State

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

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

Philippe Perrin, French Astronaut

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"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."

"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."

Susan George, American Activist

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"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."

"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."

Steve McQueen, American Actor

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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."

"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."

Stefano Langone, American Musician

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"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."

"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."

Margaret Fuller, American Critic

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"One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud."

"One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud."

John Barrow, American Politician

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"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."

"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."

Ted Shackelford, American Actor

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"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."

"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

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"The Earth needs rebels!"

"The Earth needs rebels!"

David Icke, English Athlete

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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."

"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

Earth, Faces, Fortune, Heaven

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"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."

"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."

Ted Williams, American Athlete

Earth, Managers

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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?"

"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?"

Richard Pryor, American Actor

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

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

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

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"If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!"

"If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!"

Matthew Simpson, American Clergyman

Earth, Joy, May, Will

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"I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced."

"I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced."

Wally Schirra, American Astronaut

Earth, First, Moon

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