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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views ... can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.”
Mark Twain
“A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
Katherine Mansfield
“There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen appart. There are people who's remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow.”
The Talmud
“How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
C.S. Lewis
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
John Lubbock
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?”
Albert Camus