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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a s...

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, ...

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In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly...

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The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing ...

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Carl SaganBillions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And...

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National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious...

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A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars w...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resu...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you k...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victim...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationa...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: O...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by th...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no tu...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasin...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There ...

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Every fundamental order is a spatial order. One speaks of the constitution of a country or a piece o...

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Carl SchmittLand and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

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Carlo RovelliSeven Brief Lessons on Physics

Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for pea...

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I have been in the land of Faerie for years and it is a place where mortal blood is turned to fire. ...

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When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space...

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The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and t...

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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one aft...

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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our might...

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You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophe...

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They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is ...

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What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

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His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Ea...

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The bright side of the planet moves toward darknessAnd the cities are falling asleep, each in its ho...

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally...

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Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

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You’re telling me that CERN dugout millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?”Kohler sh...

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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy ...

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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage...

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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee c...

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Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of hu...

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At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

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Diane AckermanThe Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals

it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man w...

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This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - wh...

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Doris LessingRe: Colonised Planet 5

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can ...

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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...

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A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons o...

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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...

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Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someon...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off hi...

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Earth's crammed with heaven...But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

…I have never seen mountains before, and they fill me and oppress me so much that I could not sleep;...

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She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, th...

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And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens....

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My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-...

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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

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Emanuel SwedenborgSecrets of Heaven (Swedenborg

The mass starts into a million suns;Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,And second pla...

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Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped...

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In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped...

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Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution...

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I wish I had done everything on earth with you

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or '...

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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love ...

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to...

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My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly ...

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Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and yo...

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If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and...

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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us o...

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Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky;The dew shall weep thy fall t...

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George HerbertThe Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and th...

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Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...

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Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and w...

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Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonder...

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Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. B...

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Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhab...

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Without world unification the species would destroy itself by the enlarged powers that had come to i...

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It cannot be described, this awesome chain of events that depopulated the whole Earth; the range is ...

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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not ...

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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to ...

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everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does. The wind has its reasons. We just do...

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The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfi...

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Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, l...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with th...

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