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Earth Quotes
"Since there always has to be a certain number of astronauts manning the station at all times, one of the main aspects of the mission was to transport a new team to the station and bring back some members of the previous team back to Earth."
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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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"How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security."
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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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"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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"It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift."
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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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"I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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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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"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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"There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth."
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"We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth."
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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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"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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"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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"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
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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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"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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"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."
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"Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived."
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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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"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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"Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived."
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"If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth."
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"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."
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"It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it."
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"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."
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