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• Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Godly, Christian Inspirational

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• The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Cute, Beautiful

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• If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Twenties, Done, Literature

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• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

  Barry Commoner

  People, Firefighter, Earth Day

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Uplifting, Memorial Day

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• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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• I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Heaven, Makers

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

  Booker T. Washington

  Life, Leadership, Power

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• We're here on Earth to fart around

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fart

  Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer (2011). “Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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• I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

  James Cameron

  Short Love, Travel, New York

  James Cameron (1966). “Witness”

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• We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nature, Environment, Conservation

  "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.

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• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Justice, Together

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.533, Beard Books

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• The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Motivational, Death, Faith

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• When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Marriage, Love And Marriage

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• Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Morning, Business, Reality

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• That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

  Helen Keller

  Sunset, Mean, Sky

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• Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.

  Unknown

  Love, Inspirational, Good Morning

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• Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

  Archimedes

  Graduation, Determination, Moving

  Quoted in Pappus, Synagoge

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• Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Sports, Hero

  Quoted in'A RogersThesaurus' inThe Saturday Review, 25 Aug 1962. Another form of the quote appeared in a syndicated newspaper article,15 Feb1925: 'Heroing is one of the shortestlived professions there is'.

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• My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Grandmother

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.55, University of Texas Press

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• Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Inspirational, Crazy

  Walt Whitman (1953). “The best of Whitman”

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• The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

  Henry Beston

  Heart, Blood, Sea

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Witty, Children

  Notebooks (1912)

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• The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

  Daniel Webster

  Science, Sea, Earth Day

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.451, Beard Books

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• The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

  Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

  Country, Firsts, Climate Change

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