John Donne Quotes
Man, who is the noblest part of the earth, melts so away as if he were a statue, not of earth, but of snow.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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I'm perpetually lonely.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.
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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.
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That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.
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Man, who is the noblest part of the earth, melts so away as if he were a statue, not of earth, but of snow.
