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"Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread"."
"The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities."
"For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'"
"You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth."
"Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth."
"Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum."
"A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth."
"If these were my last moments on earth, I’d spend them fighting to save him with everything I had. If our roles were reversed, I knew he’d do the same"."
"I love you, Kitten. There's nothing on this earth or under it that can change that."
"Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter."
"If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ."
"Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth."
"But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth."
"wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it."
"If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides."
"Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode."
"Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?"
"The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be."
"Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that."
"It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men."
