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Earth Quotes
"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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"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"
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"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
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"Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived."
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"The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth."
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"I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views."
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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."
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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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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
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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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"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
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"And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color."
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"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."
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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
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"If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words."
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"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead."
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"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."
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"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."
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"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
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"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
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"On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures."
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"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
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"We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the 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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"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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"In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives."
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"Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."
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"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."
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"Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent."
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"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."
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"We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth."
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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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"I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out."
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