Alexandra Petri Quotes
I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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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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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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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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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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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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The first view of the Earth is magical... in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred. You get the feeling that I need to work extraordinarily hard along with other human beings to respect that.
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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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Richard Branson is probably the most visible of the private commercial space guys, and what is venture, Virgin Galactic is about is sub orbital flight. That is, you'll see a spacecraft that looks more or less like an airplane and it will fly into space, but only spend about 15 minutes. It'll go up in a parabolic arc and then fall back down, and so the customers on that flight will only get about five minutes of weightlessness. They'll get to glimpse the horizon of the Earth, take a look at it before just before they start coming back down into the atmosphere.
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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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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.
