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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."
Wally Schirra
"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."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
Voltaire
"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."
Black Elk
"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."
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"Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected."
Edmond Halley
"Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected."
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"I'm the audience's representative on earth."
Michael Caine
"I'm the audience's representative on earth."
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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."
Joseph Rutherford
"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."
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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."
Victor Francis Hess
"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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"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."
Richard Bach
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."
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"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
Christopher Marlowe
"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
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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."
Julius Sterling Morton
"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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"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
Rebecca West
"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the 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."
Rip Taylor
"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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"A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven."
Charles R. Swindoll
"A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven."
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"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."
Hannah Arendt
"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."
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"The Earth needs rebels!"
David Icke
"The Earth needs rebels!"
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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."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
"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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"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
"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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"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?"
Virgil
"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?"
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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."
W. H. Auden
"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."
Jay Inslee
"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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"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."
Stefan Zweig
"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."
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"It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed."
Jerry Lawler
"It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed."
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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."
Bill Lee
"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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"You can't take sides when you know the earth is round."
Patricia Sun
"You can't take sides when you know the earth is round."
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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?"
Harold Pinter
"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"
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"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."
Clifford D. Simak
"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."
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"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
Susan George
"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
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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."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"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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"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."
Philippe Perrin
"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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"Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?"
Joan Leslie
"Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?"
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"It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best."
Leo Kottke
"It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best."
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"We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth."
Benjamin Tucker
"We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth."
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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."
David R. Brower
"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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"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
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"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat."
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat."
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"And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."
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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."
Bram Stoker
"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."
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"How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security."
Jim Fowler
"How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security."
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"Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth."
Edward Burnett Tylor
"Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth."
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"The earth laughs in flowers."
e. e. cummings
"The earth laughs in flowers."
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"The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it."
Gertrude Stein
"The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it."
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"And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color."
Beatrice Wood
"And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color."
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"Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth."
Curt Siodmak
"Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth."
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"That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast."
Michael Berryman
"That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast."
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"I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth."
Liza Minnelli
"I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth."
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"There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite."
John C. Reilly
"There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite."
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"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
Marcus Aurelius
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
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"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
Walt Whitman
"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
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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."
George G. Simpson
"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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"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."
Hjalmar Schacht
"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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