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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Barry Commoner Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Moore Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Abdallah II Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Martin H. Fischer Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
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  • Ben Miles English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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  • Honoré de Balzac Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Andreas Capellanus 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 (1150 - 1220)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Bobby Davro Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Aristotle Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Philip Roth Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Anne Tyler Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Every offense is avenged on earth.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
    The Great Divorce (1944)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Vilanch Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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