"You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry."
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"The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet."
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"We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist."
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"Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money."
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"Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and the moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center."
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"When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles."
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"So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?” “Yep,” said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth, and swallowing it whole. “Then you get P for ‘Poor’ ” — Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration — “and D for ‘Dreadful.’ ” “And then T,” George reminded him. “T?” asked Hermione, looking appalled. “Even lower than a D? What on earth does that stand for?” “ ‘Troll,’ ” said George promptly."
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"If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise."
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"Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God."
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"The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed."
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"Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever."
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"Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg."
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"Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."
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"Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking."
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"What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true."
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"Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of."
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"In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger."
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"Mother Earth is very talented."
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"That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements."
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"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
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