"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is."
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"There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else."
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"It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation."
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"Blessed are the peacemakers on earth."
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"I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth."
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"To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous."
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"Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth."
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"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves."
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"It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched."
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"Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?"
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"There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well."
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"Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness."
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"I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant."
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"I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there."
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"I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime"
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"When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth."
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"Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing."
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"The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good."
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"There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos."
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"They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth."
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