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"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth."
"Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth."
"In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten."
"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living."
"The wolf is living for the earth."
"Then all this earth shines like one house."
"But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin."
"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
"I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that."
"The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died."
"Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end."
"The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe."
"There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science."
"God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through."
"heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled."
"I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament."
"The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces."
"We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us."
"Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth."
"What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?"
