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Earth Quotes
"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be."
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"The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth."
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"Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes."
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"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"
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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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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
19
"Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth."
19
"The end. But I'm telling you now, if either of you breathe a word -one goddamn word- about Cate, I will come down on you so hard, they'll be naming hurricanes after me for a fucking century."
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"Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth."
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"As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains."
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"I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway."
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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."
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"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)."
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"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."
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"The greenest of pastures are right here on earth."
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"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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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."
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