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«Take what you can use and let the rest go by»
Author: Ken Kesey (Writer) | About: Earth, Ecology | Keywords: go by
«It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.»
«It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.»
Author: Joseph Conrad | About: Earth, People | Keywords: curiously, remarked, unfitted
«I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Writer) | About: Earth | Keywords: fart, farts
«Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.»
«Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.»
«I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.»
«Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.»
«Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music»
«In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity»

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