"Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me."
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"If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round."
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"In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin."
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"What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth."
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"I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth."
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"Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere."
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"In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth."
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"While freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth."
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"That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched."
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"Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man."
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"Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive."
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"What! alive, and so bold, O earth?"
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"You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth."
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"When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love."
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"She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose."
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"It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it."
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"Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this."
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"There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess."
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"A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars."
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"We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth."
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