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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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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.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
The earth laughs in flowers.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
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The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
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The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
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The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
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The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.
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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
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The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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