"Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small."
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"All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."
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"I looked into the vast dome of blue emptiness that stretched out above me in all directions and the illusion was still there, the size and speed, and what information they were sending to mother earth."
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"If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again."
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"The miracle is to walk on the earth."
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"It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth."
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"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point."
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"Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it."
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"Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word."
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"Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola."
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"Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!"
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"I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth."
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"No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease."
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"We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease"
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"The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have."
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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
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"He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth."
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"Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being."
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"Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful."
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"She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth."
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