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“On this earth, one pays dearly for every kind of mastery . . . . For having a specialty one pays by also being the victim of this specialty. But you would have it otherwise -- cheaper and fairer and above all more comfortable -- isn't that right, my dear contemporaries?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“But did thee feel the earth move?”
Ernest Hemingway
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy”
William Shakespeare
“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with a goal in front and not behind”
George Bernard Shaw
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
Charles Bukowski
“You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”
Wendell Berry
“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”
Bill Cosby
“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”
