Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
Quotes to Explore
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.
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I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
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We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
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Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth... have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.
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It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.
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No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.
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You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
