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Our tasting spoons pave the pathway to memories wrapped in flavor--a reminder that the true essence of food lies in its undocumented inheritance, the rusty treasures of bygone harvests.
Author:
Elena Marist
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Attuning your spirit with sun-drenched mornings is the key, for summer dampens the abundance spanning behind shushed doors of possibilities.
Author:
Jules Sierra
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The only way to make nerds savvy in geography is to remind them that with great topographic information comes great lateral-latitude tears, #planetpudge!
Author:
Sherman Poppen
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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.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Author:
Xun Zi
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I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
Author:
Neil Young
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I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
Author:
Brigham Young
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They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
Author:
William Yeats
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Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Author:
Frank Wright
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A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
Author:
Christopher Wren
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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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.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
Author:
Ted Williams
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And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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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.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
Author:
George Whitefield
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But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
Author:
Ellen White
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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Author:
Rebecca West
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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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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.
Author:
David Wenham
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Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
Author:
Duke Wellington
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.
Author:
Dennis Weaver
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Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.
Author:
Dennis Weaver
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If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
Author:
Dennis Weaver
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
Author:
George Washington
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
Author:
J. Walters
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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
Author:
Margaret Walker
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Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.
Author:
Brian Walker
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Author:
Alice Walker
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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
Author:
Peter Vries
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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.
Author:
Bernard Voto
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Author:
Voltaire
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Author:
Voltaire
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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?
Author:
Stephen Vizinczey
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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Author:
Virgil
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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Author:
Jules Verne
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On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
Author:
Jules Verne
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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?
Author:
Jules Verne
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The cause of these global changes is fundamentally due to the Sun and its effect on the Earth as it moves about in its orbit. Not from man-made activities.
Author:
William Vaughan
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So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
Author:
Henry Vaughan
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Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.
Author:
Henry Vaughan
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If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.
Author:
Mark Udall
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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.
Author:
Edward Tylor
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My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
Author:
Steven Tyler
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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.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Author:
Mark Twain
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
Author:
Michael Tucker
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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.
Author:
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
Author:
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
Author:
Chogyam Trungpa
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Author:
Dalton Trumbo
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.
Author:
Thuy Trang
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The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
Author:
Daley Thompson
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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
Author:
Lewis Thomas
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
Author:
Valentina Tereshkova
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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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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.
Author:
Rip Taylor
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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
Author:
William Taft
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A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
Author:
Charles Swindoll
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For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
Author:
Patricia Sun
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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
Author:
William Sumner
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I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.
Author:
Maurice Strong
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After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Author:
Maurice Strong
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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Author:
Maurice Strong
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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
Author:
Josiah Strong
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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
Author:
Josiah Strong
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There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
Author:
John Stott
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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.
Author:
Bram Stoker
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What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
Author:
Ryan Stiles
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The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Author:
Stendhal
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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.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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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.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Author:
Edward Steichen
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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
Author:
Edward Steichen
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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.
Author:
Edward Steichen
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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.
Author:
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
Author:
Henry Stanley
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The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
Author:
John Sousa
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We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
Author:
George Soros
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Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!
Author:
Brett Somers
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
Author:
Dana Snyder
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The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
Author:
Tony Snow
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I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Author:
Betty Smith
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The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.
Author:
Anne Smedley
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You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.
Author:
Curt Siodmak
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The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Author:
Frank Sinatra
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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.
Author:
George Simpson
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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.
Author:
Clifford Simak
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The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
Author:
John Shimkus
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What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
Author:
Brad Sherman
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.
Author:
Thomas Shepard
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Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
Author:
Sidney Sheldon
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Author:
George Shaw
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Author:
George Shaw
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The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.
Author:
Moshe Sharett
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
Author:
Ernest Shackleton
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
Author:
Ted Shackelford
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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Author:
Anne Sexton
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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
Author:
Johann Seume
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.
Author:
Harry Seidler
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This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.
Author:
Jon Secada
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Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.
Author:
Izabella Scorupco
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
Author:
Olive Schreiner
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McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.
Author:
John Schmitz
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.
Author:
Stanley Schmidt
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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Karl Schlegel
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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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.
Author:
Wally Schirra
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Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there.
Author:
Michael Scheuer
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Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
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Philip Schaff
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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.
Author:
Hjalmar Schacht
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Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
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David Sarnoff
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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Margaret Sanger
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Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
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George Sand
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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.
Author:
George Sand
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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Antoine Saint-Exupery
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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.
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Carl Sagan
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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.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
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Henry Russell
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Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
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George Russell
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
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Bertrand Russell
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
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Margaret Runbeck
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Author:
Gabrielle Roy
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If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
Author:
Romain Rolland
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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
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Will Rogers
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Author:
Will Rogers
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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Will Rogers
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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Author:
Nelson Rockefeller
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At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out, and these were all frightening movies.
Author:
Ann Robinson
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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.
Author:
Eric Roberts
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Author:
Rainer Rilke
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
Author:
Sally Ride
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
Author:
Sally Ride
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
Author:
Sally Ride
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I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.
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Kevin Richardson
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You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.
Author:
Jeff Rich
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On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
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Jules Renard
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
Author:
Walter Reisch
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
Author:
Walter Reisch
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There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
Author:
John Reilly
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I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Author:
Oliver Reed
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Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
Author:
Jerry Reed
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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Author:
Charles Reade
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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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.
Author:
Thomas Quincey
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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
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Ernie Pyle
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The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
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Ernie Pyle
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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Mario Puzo
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The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?
Author:
Richard Pryor
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Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
Author:
Jacques Prevert
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I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
Author:
Jacqueline Pre
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There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
Author:
Susan Powter
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
Author:
J. Powers
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Karl Popper
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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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.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
Author:
Li Po
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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Plato
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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Plato
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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Plato
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Author:
Harold Pinter
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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?
Author:
Harold Pinter
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The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.
Author:
Gifford Pinchot
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Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.
Author:
Gifford Pinchot
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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
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Peace Pilgrim
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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Pablo Picasso
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Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
Author:
Edith Piaf
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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Edith Piaf
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It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
Author:
John Phillips
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My sisters are my favorite people on earth.
Author:
Ryan Phillippe
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
Author:
Petrarch
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Author:
Petrarch
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Author:
Fernando Pessoa
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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.
Author:
Philippe Perrin
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It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.
Author:
Philippe Perrin
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Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Author:
Ross Perot
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Author:
Pericles
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Pericles
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Author:
Jean Paul
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Author:
Alan Paton
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Author:
Philipus Paracelsus
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
Author:
Philipus Paracelsus
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
Author:
Paracelsus
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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.
Author:
Robert Paine
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
Author:
George Orwell
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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
Author:
John Orr
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We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.
Author:
Jose Orozco
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I am very down to earth and practical.
Author:
Ashley Olsen
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We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.
Author:
Ashley Olsen
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Author:
Barney Oliver
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
Author:
Barney Oliver
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
Author:
Bill Nye
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I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.
Author:
Larry Norman
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.
Author:
Claude Nicollier
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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
Author:
Ben Nicholson
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
Author:
Randy Newman
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God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.
Author:
Francis Newman
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We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
Author:
Russell Nelson
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We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.
Author:
Daniel Nathans
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Author:
Taslima Nasrin
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I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
Author:
Story Musgrave
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If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.
Author:
Story Musgrave
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And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth.
Author:
Len Murray
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Author:
Arthur Murphy
