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“American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.”

World States Play United Roles United States Planets Benefits Majors Dislike Constructive Unprecedented American Power

Book:The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

Source: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

“To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.”

States Planets Goes On Achievement Stupidity Welfare Welfare State Great Achievement

Author:George Mikes

“On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.”

States Planets Pakistan Anti-american

Author:Ted Rall

“People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.”

People Mind War States Humanity Planets Buddhism Destruction Ultimate Blow State Of Mind Preparing Nuclear War

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.”

“The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet, from deep-sea starfish to desert sagebrush. That's why the ocean matters. If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.”

Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

“If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Humans States Animal Environment Planets Eating Meat

Author:David Wolfe

“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.”

People World Mind Littles States Whole Earth Felt Cities Loneliness Planets Window Seven Connected Billions State Of Mind Location Centre

Author:Chris Hadfield

“Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.”

People Mind States Might Earth Given Teacher Planets Thousand Lifetime Enlightened State Of Mind Dozen Planet Earth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The tears are invisible. I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet earth.”

States Earth Jobs Imagine Tears Planets Disaster Invisible Panic Planet Earth

Author:Maira Kalman

“The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.”

Ifs Men Mind Children Littles States Body Moving Courses Chance Cities Sea Planets Battle Flow Army Exceed Wisest Conjecture Ebb And Flow Wisest Man

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works