Quotes with earth

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  • Cat Stevens Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate comprehensivity. Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • David Sarnoff Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Charles Dickens Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • John Lyly Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
    John Lyly
    English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Camille Paglia Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Voltaire Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • John Milton Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Napoleon Hill More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Burton Cummings Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • John Ruskin Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Aaron Latham Movie making is the slowest business on earth next to fossil manufacture.
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  • Walter Savage Landor Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Buzz Aldrin My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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W. Bruce Cameron My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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