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"I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out."
"I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be."
"She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust."
"There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes."
"We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth."
"New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in."
"A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth."
"You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct."
"If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians."
"Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain you. And if you cherry-pick this fact, you are left thinking that earth is some haven for life, but 96, 97 percent of all species that ever lived on earth are now extinct from the actions of the earth itself and an occasional asteroid to stir the pot."
"Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth."
"Science reveals that all life on Earth is one."
"The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no specific influence on my ambitions for that reason. It wasn't really far enough away from Earth to matter to me."
"The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats."
"I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough."
"Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different."
"The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth."
"Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them drop in on Earth, and when they do, they're called meteorites."
"Earth is a flower and it's pollinating."
"A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes."
