"Earth is heaven. Or hell. Your choice."
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"Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most."
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"Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one."
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"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are."
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"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun."
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"Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth."
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"An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away."
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"We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth."
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"It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover."
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"Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth."
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"Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place."
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"I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself."
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"Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity."
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"Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch."
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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."
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"Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman."
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"Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth."
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"The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth."
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"The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him."
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"Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink, and the Tory party - the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth - is where it's happening."
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