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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Earth

"I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one."

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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
Earth

"How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Earth

"This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Earth

"But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Earth

"Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Earth

"Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different."

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Bob Brown Politician
Earth

"For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

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Brian Jacques Author
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"You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace"

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Brigham Young Religious Leader
Earth

"One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth."

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Brigham Young Religious Leader
Earth

"We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers."

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