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“Mother Earth is very talented.”

Earth Mother Talent Mother Earth

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.”

“When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.”

Ifs Said Two Earth Accepting Sun Talent Bears Kings Thousand Ten Divides Asia Darius

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.”

Mind Has Beens Reason Seems Earth Evil Talent Eternal Mass Instruments Excited Impression Revelations Disgusting Vicious Abhorrence

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.”

Earth Given Talent Intellect Buried Napkins

Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

“When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.”

Inspirational Kind Earth Mother Born Love Is Virtue Talent Connections Recognise Mother Earth

Book:Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

Source: Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.”

“I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.”

Earth Jobs Fun Talent Range Broads Wizards Best Job

Author:Ben Stein

“The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!”

“It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.”