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Earth Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."
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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."
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"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
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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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"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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"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
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"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
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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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"There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth."
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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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"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."
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"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."
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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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"Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany."
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"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
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"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
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"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."
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"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
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"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."
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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
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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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"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."
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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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"When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same."
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"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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"We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst."
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"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide."
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"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
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