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"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."

"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

Earth, Space, Sun, Will

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"I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at."

"I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

Earth, May, Writers

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"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."

"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."

Leroy Chiao, American Astronaut

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"So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth."

"So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth."

Sally Ride, American Astronaut

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"There is nothing on earth divine except humanity."

"There is nothing on earth divine except humanity."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

Earth, Humanity, Nothing

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"Seek on earth what you have found in heaven."

"Seek on earth what you have found in heaven."

George William Russell, Irish Writer

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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

John Jay Chapman, American Poet

Earth, Opinions, Want

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"I am very down to earth and practical."

"I am very down to earth and practical."

Ashley Olsen, American Actress

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"The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth."

"The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth."

Wilfred Grenfell, Welsh Activist

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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

Earth, Feet, Forget, Hair

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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings."

"Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings."

Andreas Capellanus, French Writer

Earth, Giving, Gold, Sea

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"It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth."

"It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth."

Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch Mathematician

Earth, Mathematicians, Physics

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Earth, Forget, Light

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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."

"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."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

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"Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth."

"Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth."

Arthur Murphy, Irish Writer

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"Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic."

"Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic."

Duane G. Carey, American Astronaut

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views."

"I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views."

Duane G. Carey, American Astronaut

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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth."

"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth."

Edith Piaf, French Musician

Earth, Singing, World

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"Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow."

"Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow."

Li Po, Chinese Poet

Earth, Flies, Heaven, Sorrow

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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Earth, Death, Life, Learning

"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."

"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."

Philippe Perrin, French Astronaut

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Earth, Rights, Majority, Minority

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

John Steinbeck, American Author

"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."

"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."

Robert Crippen, American Astronaut

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