Quotes with earth-shattering

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  • Winston Churchill No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Johann Gottfried Seume Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
    Johann Gottfried Seume
    German writer (1763 - 1810)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Katherine Mansfield Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Gilbert Adair The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.
    Gilbert Adair
    Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. (1944 - 2011)
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Thomas Wolfe There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there which passeth knowledge, and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Archibald Macleish To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night - brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Aeschylus What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Robert Anthony You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Josh Billings A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ann Druyan A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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