Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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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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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
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Nothing ever goes away.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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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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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.
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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
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If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
