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Dafydd Williams Astronaut
Earth

"The first space walk, it's really got your attention. You know you're travelling eight times faster than a rifle bullet, and you're outside. Second space walk, you're a lot more relaxed, you're looking over your shoulder, admiring the view of Earth. What was funny about the third space walk was that mission control in Houston called and said, "Take a moment and enjoy the view"."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Earth

"In the beginning God created the heavans and the earth... see you at the final."

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