"Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth."
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"The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love."
"Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth."
"For such a time as this I was placed upon the earth. To hear the voice of God and do His will, whatever it is."
"There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back."
"Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight."
"True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth."
"The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything."
"... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences."
"Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must."
"I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy."
"Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth"
"There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead."
"Earth has not anything to show more fair."
"The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants."
"The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe."
"I control every interaction with every human being I'm with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth."
"It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam."
"The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song."
"Listen to the sound of the earth turning."