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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Most of my favorite fictional couples are distinctly different. Light and dark, good and evil, boring and wild... whatever! They're more fun to experience and definitely more fun to write. You have all these levels, and you know they're not going to react to situations the same way.
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Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
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As evil waxes, the very men who stand for good will in their fear use ever worse means o’ fighting, and thereby give evil a free beachhead.
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Taking responsibility gives me a sense of control.
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We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
