"Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!"
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"Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground."
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"The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth."
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"I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-"
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"We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life."
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"All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full."
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"So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth."
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"She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me."
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"All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye."
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"Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page."
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"It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth."
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"Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought."
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"Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on."
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"No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you."
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"All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses."
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"Christ has no body now on earth but yours."
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"I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth."
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"Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city."
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"Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be."
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"Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on."
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