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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 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's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
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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.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759) -
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.
Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22] -
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.
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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.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.
Remark to Galeazzo Ciano (19 December 1937) quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom (2003) by Antonio Santi, p. 50 -
This is the year which people will talk about
This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy -
Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
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