"This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space."
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"The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing."
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"I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way."
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"I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language."
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"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth."
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"No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman."
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"I am made of earth, and my song made of words."
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"The earth is bread we take and eat."
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"Without the ice, the earth will fall"
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"All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself."
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"Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them."
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"Women are all we know of paradise on this earth."
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"Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life."
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"It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?"
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"Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust."
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"Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth."
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"Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power."
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"Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history."
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"What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you."
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"The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve."
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