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Ethel Kennedy Philanthropist
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"For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got."

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Frederick Douglass Social Reformer, Writer
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"When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world."

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Pele Professional Footballer
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"Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?"

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Kate Chopin Author
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"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?"

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Millard Fuller Businessman, Philanthropist
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"Everyone—all of us, every last person on God’s earth—deserves decent shelter. It speaks to the most basic of human needs—our home—the soil from which all of us, every last person, either blossom or wither. We each have need of food, clothing, education, medical care, and companionship; but first, we must have a place to live and grow."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection."

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark."

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Sappho Poet
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"Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself."

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