Quotes with down-to-earth

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  • Billy Sunday The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • T. S. Eliot 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.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Dickens There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • T. S. Eliot 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.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Brad Stone 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.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • William Shakespeare There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
    Hamlet II, 5
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mark Twain 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.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Boris Johnson 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.
    Face it: its all your own fat fault, Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller 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
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bill Nye 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.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Barbara McClintock 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.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 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.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Euripides There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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