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Adam Brown Artist
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"I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me."

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Ben Harper Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud."

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Ben Nicholson Artist
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"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth."

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long."

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Dee Brown Author
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"The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself."

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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
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"Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]"

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever."

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"Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?"

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man."

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