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.
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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.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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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?
Lady Gregory
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
Patricia Sun
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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.
Malin Akerman
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
J. Carter Brown
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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.
Edith Widder
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
Francesco Quinn
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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.
Jackie Kennedy
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Edith Piaf
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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.
Paracelsus
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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.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
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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.
Mae Jemison
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Kalpana Chawla
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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.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.
Dennis Weaver
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What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
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The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
Stanley Kubrick
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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.
Alexandra Petri