Quotes with earth-shattering

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  • Richard M. DeVos The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bill Viola The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Paracelsus The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Blaise Pascal The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Faulkner The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jean Paul The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Richard P. Feynman The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard The only truly alien planet is Earth.
    Concrete Island (2009)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Carl Sandburg The people know the salt of the sea
    and the strength of the winds
    lashing the corners of the earth.
    The people take the earth
    as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
    Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
    The People, Yes (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg The people will live on.
    The learning and blundering people will live on.
    They will be tricked and sold and again sold.
    And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
    The People, Yes (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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