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The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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There is no question that plants have [all] kinds of sensitivities. But just because they sit there, anybody walking down the road considers them just a plastic area to look at, [as if] they're not really alive.
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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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There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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