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“We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.”

Knows Men World Wells Earth This World Affection Admire Despise Multitudes Trifles Generalities

Book:The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

Source: The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

“Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?”

Should Wells Reason Earth Beautiful Planets Shadow Agree

Book:The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

Source: The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets

“Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.”

People Thinking Believe Wells Stills Enough Earth Water Sky Theory Devil Thirds Holes Dimensions Flats Caves Accommodate

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.”

“If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.”

Ifs Believe Wells War Might Earth Jesus Water Rich Cutting Dying Taxes Lays Torture Eggs If You Believe Tax Cuts Bunnies Migrants Good Words

Author:Bill Maher

“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.”

Men Wells Feelings Earth Culture Information Activity Useless Bores Humane Scrap

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.”

“I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.”

Way Needs Wells Use Action Earth Choices My Own Creative Clear Tree Guilt Storm Buying Avoiding Another Way

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.”

Wells War Earth Moving Community Economic Roots Well Being Soil Yield Agriculture Commodity Ecological Ecosystems Making Peace Measuring Economic Systems Gdp

Author:Vandana Shiva

“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.”

“Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.”

Men Mind Wells Soul Body Might Earth Spiritual Religion Animal Lord Pure Suits Compounds

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?”

Men Wells Earth Names Darling Sparrows Rugged

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.”

People Wells Earth Life Is Heaven Hell Tasks Exit No Exit Paul Sartre

Author:Alan Alda

“Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.”

World Wells Light Earth Universe Names Speak Language Heaven Stars Christ Repeats Passages

Author:Philip James Bailey

“No two on earth in all things can agree; All have some darling singularity; Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, Are but a better kind of toys for kings. In things indifferent reason bids us choose, Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.”

Men Wells Kind Two Reason Earth Girl Boys Kings Men And Women All Things Agree Delight Toys Crowns Indifferent Muse Monkeys Sigh Darling Whim Boy And Girl Singularity

Book:The Poems of Charles Churchill

Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill

“Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva, Switzerland. Then they canceled the machine and gave us a second billion dollars to fill up the hole. Two billion dollars to dig a hole and fill it up. That is the wisdom of the United States Congress and it really makes you wonder: Is there intelligent life on the Earth? Certainly not in the United States Congress.”

Wells Two States Earth United Wonder United States Machines Bigger Intelligent Dollars Congress Billions Holes Switzerland Geneva Intelligent Life

Author:Michio Kaku

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

“If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.”

Ifs Wells Ends Play Might Earth Joy Courses Heaven Pleasure Sitting Theater Leaving Dinner Tickets Dining

Book:High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic

Source: High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic

“You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.”

People Giving Feels Wells Care Earth Wish Cost Feel Better Apologizing Closure

Book:Old Man's War Boxed Set I

Source: Old Man's War Boxed Set I

“There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too.”

Ifs World Writing Wells Important Earth Young Values Literature Endure Children's Literature Continuance Writing Well

Author:Jill Paton Walsh

“Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.”

Wells Might Earth Sky Israel Ideology Rejects Rejecting

Author:Barack Obama

“If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.”

Ifs Trying Wells Earth Ten Mountain Population Command If I Could Instruction Our Relationship Commandments Moses Genesis Ten Commandments Tablets

Author:David R. Brower

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