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Earth Quotes
"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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"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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"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."
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"We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth."
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"And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves."
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"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."
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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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"Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?"
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"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
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"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
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"I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars."
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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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"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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"It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's."
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"I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything."
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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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"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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"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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"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London."
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"We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat."
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"Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?"
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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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"The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived."
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"I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out."
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"I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it."
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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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"It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth."
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