"The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American"
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"I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us."
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"O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other."
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"Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?"
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"Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven."
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"Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth."
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"Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens."
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"Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act."
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"Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty."
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"Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."
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"The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead."
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"The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it, possess it no longer: such are the petrefactions."
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"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth."
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"the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by"
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"Prayer is the bridge over which the Kingdom of God comes to the earth."
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"The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them."
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"Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better."
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"We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level."
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"Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve."
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"The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard."
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