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"Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth."
"An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth."
"A large portion of the Earth's land area is taken up by old varsity jackets."
"The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time."
"We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you."
"We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace."
"Without love no life left on earth."
"Earth: mostly harmless"
"The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose."
"I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace."
"Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth."
"Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place."
"The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth."
"The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol."
"The center of the earth is about a million degrees."
"And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis."
"I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow."
"A lot in the faith-based community, a lot of fundamentalist groups are - are now saying, you know, the Earth is the lord and the fullness there of, and we have an obligation to be good stewards of the planet."
"You can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn't mean you're going to fall off the edge."
"the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries."
