Quotes 281 till 300 of 499.
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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2017) 893 -
One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.
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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
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Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 54 min 25 sec -
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
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People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
Shock and Awe -
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
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Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down - toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
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Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it.
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Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other.
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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