Quotes with earth-cult

Quotes 401 till 420 of 503.

  • Chief Seattle The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Joseph De Maistre The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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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  • William Shakespeare There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
    Source: Hamlet II, 5
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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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.
    Source: 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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  • 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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  • Walter Savage Landor There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Douglas Macarthur There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bobby Fischer They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
    Source: Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Lester Bangs They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Billie Jean King They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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