Earth Quotes
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While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.
Aristotle
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From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth. What was the spark that, billions of years ago, kickstarted the process of evolution that has brought us life as we know it today? I hope that we will get some answers to that in my lifetime.
Martin Rees
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You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
Jon Fishman
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Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.
David Suzuki
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Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. TV remote control Click.
Scott Adams
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.
Muhammad Ali
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Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.
Johannes Kepler
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Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.
Diane Ackerman
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Belize, with the help of God and the support of its people, will stand upright and will do its duty and help bring peace, stability and prosperity to our region and to wider circles of our planet Earth.
George Cadle Price
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The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
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I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.
Marsha Blackburn
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
Robert Frost
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Man, who is the noblest part of the earth, melts so away as if he were a statue, not of earth, but of snow.
John Donne
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Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this – who once has loved, loves never on earth again!
George Arnold
