Quotes with earth-shattering

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  • Seng-Ts'an The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
    Seng-Ts'an
    Chinese third patriarch of Zen Buddhism
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  • Vilhjalmur Stefansson The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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  • Carl Sagan The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • William Shakespeare The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doch glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
    A midsummer night's dream (1595)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Keats The poetry of the earth is never dead.

    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • David Mamet The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • John Lennon The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bernard De Voto The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Buford The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Buzz Aldrin The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • James I of England The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
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  • Arthur Rimbaud The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Carl Sagan The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 03 min 55 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • William James The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barry Cornwall The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
    Dramatic scenes: with other poems
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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