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"My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind for bids to crave."
"There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others."
"But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do."
"Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?"
"If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now."
"The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species."
"Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true"
"Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee."
"Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!"
"No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter."
"We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met."
"The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality."
"In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy."
"The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it."
"As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky."
"The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place."
"These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home."
"I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum."
"We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars."
"We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth."
