"Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it."
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"All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue."
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"The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!"
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"I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth."
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"Earth's crammed with Heaven."
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"I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious."
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"Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth."
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"If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?"
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"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena."
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"A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural."
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"God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time."
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"If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed."
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"The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable."
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"Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth."
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"I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment."
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"If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place."
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"The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!"
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"In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth."
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"I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet."
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"O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass."
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