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“On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.”

Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

“The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.”

Firsts Looks Able Earth Humanity Space Views Planets Moon First Time Program Our Planet Spaceships Afar Space Program Fallouts

Author:Theodore Hesburgh

“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.”

Firsts Science Sun Five Planets Moon Seven Rounds Smallest Mercury Saturn Revolving

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.”

People Thinking Mind Firsts Would Be Wanted Earth Lasts Film Planets Casts Blow Boxes Unexpected Planet Earth

Author:Alicia Keys

“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.”

Firsts Earth Science Millions Sun Issues Planets Mass Rounds Explosions

Book:The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes

Source: The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes

“We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.”

Firsts Looks Space Cities Wonder Generations Planets Walking Lucky Moon Achievement Appreciation Broke Accomplishment Assured Descendants Star Gazing Audacity

Author:Walter Cronkite

“I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars. For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe. I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.”

“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.”

Source: First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story

“Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.”

Firsts Persons Purpose Language Goal Community Effort Quality Planets Highest Asking Single Person Wikipedia Encyclopedia

Author:Jimmy Wales

“There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.”

Firsts Inspiration Generations Planets Moon First Time Leaving Excited Flight Coming Back

Author:Alan Shepard

“The time will come when a spacecraft carrying human beings will leave the earth and set out on a voyage to distant planets - to remote worlds. Today this may seem only an enticing fantasy, but such in fact is not the case. The launching of the first two Soviet Sputniks has already thrown a sturdy bridge from the earth into space, and the way to the stars is open”

World Way Firsts Humans May Two Facts Seems Today Earth Stars Human Beings Space Cases Fantasy Planets Bridges Thrown Soviet World Today Voyages Launching Sturdy Enticing Spacecraft Sputnik

Author:Sergei Korolev

“Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.”

Way Firsts Lasts Healing Creation Planets Leaving Rebel Toxic Desperation Our Planet

Author:Sam Smith

“That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.”

Firsts Important America Political Progress Atheism Planets Wall Positive Atheism Contribution Amendments First Amendment Important Contributions

Author:Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

“Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.”

Firsts May Light Fall Stars Effects Planets Thirds All Time Fixed Divided Duration Momentary Authorship Unchangeable

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.”

People Ifs Firsts Would Be Technology Dying Planets Medical If I Could Time Travel Port Aversion Medical Technology

Author:Neal Asher

“Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.”

Knows Firsts Eye Death Lying Hours Dark Planets Lovers Finals Paradise His Eyes

Author:Gwendolyn MacEwen

“There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.”

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Author:Michael Pollan

“I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.”

Source: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.”

Life Firsts Pain Planets Breaths Sells Bars Our Future Your Future Drills Pain In Life

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.”

“First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.”

“There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.”

World Firsts Problem Planets Solve Trash Other Worlds

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.”

Years Firsts Nations Land Planets Becoming Honor Moon International Devoted Mars Enabling Permanence Becoming One

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Real Joy Values Grows Understanding Born Creative Taught Planets Adventure Expression Illusion Harmony Reaching Creative Expression

Author:Richard Bach

“Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain. My job doesn’t always feel like an integral part of the change that needs to occur. If I can offer, in my profession, to do things that are going to allow more people to connect with certain issues, then I hope it’s useful.”

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Author:Ellen Page

“Always look up! Every time I step out-side, that's the first thing I do. Ask your-self, "what star is that?", grab a star chart and try to figure it out. That is basically how I started. Learn your planets and learn how to distinguish them from the stars. Study star charts even during the day and that night, go and see if you can find them. You may surprise yourself!”

Ifs Trying Firsts Looks May Self Night Asks Stars Sides Steps Study Figures Planets Surprise Look Up

Author:Will Young

“The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.”

Firsts Individual Causes Mystery Planets Theory Insight Mysterious Surround Inherent Coincidence Synchronicity Individual Life Reconsideration

Author:James Redfield

“One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.”

Firsts Persons Self Challenges Growing Up Growing Century Planets Machines Twenties Definitions Acquire Organisms Transcendent

Author:Walter Truett Anderson

“Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.”

Firsts Light Can Do Common Sun Effects Planets Wind Shadow Forests Complexity Branches Obscure

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”

Firsts Country Asks Can Do Pay Liberty Support Planets Bears Survival Fellows Lifetime Burden Finished Administration Hardship Foe

Author:John F. Kennedy

“It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of them were scientists and some were crew members working on the ship. Just to hear their stories, like what drew them to Greenpeace in the first place and what they've been through. Every single second of the day they work to save the planet, which makes me as an actor feel quite insignificant.”

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Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was the biggest conflagration that this particular planet had seen. There was a lot of talk about utopia and how it was possible, and then, because of these events that for one reason or another couldn't be stopped, the idea of utopia went out the window.”

World Firsts Ideas War Ends Reason Events Particular Planets Window Supposed To Be War Of The Worlds Fascinated Utopia First World War

Author:Glenn Close

“Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.”

Firsts Humans Whole Race Television Planets Consumers Human Race Poison Consuming Dope

Author:James Purdy

“A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.”

Firsts Country Walks Planets Grateful Be Grateful

Book:Galapagos: World's End

Source: Galapagos: World's End

“The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different technologically. In the year 3000 the universe will be expanding as it will forever, infinitely. We will probe outer space but never find life as evolutionized as ours. We were not created by a deity. We created the deity in OUR image. Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.”

Feels Years Firsts Stills Different Spirit Song Universe Space Accepting Forever Mankind Century Planets Wine Seeking Splits Expanding Deities Outer Space Seeking God Amoeba

Author:Phyllis Diller

“When we first sat down and talked about how much of the show we were going to do based on the movie, there are certainly things you can see right away, but we wanted to make sure that the audience who maybe never saw the movie or has maybe never seen any of the Marvel characters before - and I know there's three of them left on the planet - could have someone that could be their eyes and take them in.”

Knows Firsts Character Shows Eye Wanted Three Left Audience Saws Planets Down And Sat

Author:Jeph Loeb

“Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain.”

Needs Firsts Pain Together Actors Nations Religious Leader Planets Right Now Scientist Corporations Activist Ceo Religious Leaders

Author:Ellen Page

“Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.”

People Years Firsts Kind Form Millions Planets Concern Years Ago Sacred Access Obscure Shamanism Anthropologists

Author:Terence McKenna

“When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.”

Ifs Firsts Light Sleep Saws Planets Awakened

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this guy come from? Is he from outer space?' I'd never heard anything like the way he played-not in Chicago, no place. The tone-he had this wonderful, ringing cornet tone. He could have played in a symphony orchestra with that tone. But also the intervals he played, the figures-whatever the hell he did. There was a refinement about his playing. You know, in those days I played a little trumpet, and I could play all the solos from his records, by heart.”

“The second album was like being on a completely different planet compared to when we were making the first album. ... Even though it was the same musicians, the same artist, the same studio, the same producer, - it felt like a completely different piece of a puzzle.”

Firsts Different Artist Felt Pieces Planets Musician Albums Studios Producers Puzzles

Author:Katie Melua

“The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.”

Firsts Law Universe Stars Planets Scales Gravity Splits Impressed Science And Religion Newton Regularity Isaac

Author:Seth Shostak

“Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'”

Source: Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

“When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resources - we first and foremost need to change the incentives.”

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Author:Ramez Naam

“My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the thing she wants most on the planet Earth.”

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Author:David Mandel

“If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Soul Spirit Humanity Common Possibility Planets Development Adults Blow Free Will Mature Common Experience

Author:Ken Wilber

“If we do destroy most life on this planet, science says it won't be the first time.”

Ifs Firsts Planets First Time

Author:Bryan Kest

“First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.”

Firsts Use Technology Planets Poison

Author:N. Katherine Hayles