Quotes with earth-shattering

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  • Bill Nye When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Carl Sagan When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alex Haley When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Barry Hannah When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Anna Freud Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Arthur Murphy Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
    Arthur Murphy
    Irish writer
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  • Ben Parr With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Zig Ziglar You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Ben Nicholson You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Bjarke Ingels You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Billie Holiday You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • John Lennon You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Louise Erdrich You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
    The Painted Drum (2005)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Thomas Traherne Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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