"Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us."
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"For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die."
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"We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things."
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"Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own."
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"Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth."
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"Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom."
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"The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork."
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"The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth."
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"Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings."
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"The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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"When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth."
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"Resign yourself to the influence of the earth."
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"It's the nicest thing on earth if someone comes up to me and says, 'Every day I drink out of a mug you designed.'"
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"You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth."
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"You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork."
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"We're here on Earth to fart around"
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"On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity."
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"Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?"
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"Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that."
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