David Gelernter Quotes
We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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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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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
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It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
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I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.
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This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.
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Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
