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"Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day."
"What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth."
"Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart."
"O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth."
"Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine."
"If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest."
"God owns heaven but He craves the earth."
"Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?"
"The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel."
"And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?"
"Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates."
"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."
"I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly."
"The wealthiest person on earth is the one who appreciates"
"The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?"
"Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it."
"The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth."
"Earth is crammed with heavens."
"loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round"
"What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?"
