"The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson."
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"I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal."
"If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones."
"Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned."
"When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart."
"The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program"
"We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth."
"My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth."
"Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price."
"There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know."
"The earth is enjoyed by heroes"
"This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe."
"The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever."
"It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth."
"A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul."
"Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant."
"But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist."
"We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality."
"He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth."
"We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult."