Globes Quotes - Page 9

• So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Soul, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.102, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

  Nikola Tesla

  Song, Simple, Land

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

  Mark Twain

  Book, Men, Air

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• Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

  Richard Lamm

  Fall, Ice, Water

  "Do We Really Know How Much It Costs to Shoe a Horse?" by Gov. Dick Lamm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

  Edward Gibbon

  Differences, Dresses, Language

  Edward Gibbon (1869). “The Crusades: A.D. 1095-1261”, p.81

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• The government is a heartbeat away from nationalizing health care based on deliberate misinformation about the nation's uninsured and despite the 100 percent failure rate of such fantastic reforms elsewhere on the globe.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, Reform, Care

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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Garden, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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• Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Brother, Animal

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• I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, People, Damnation

  "Ford: Bush made 'big mistake' on Iraq justifications", www.cnn.com. December 28, 2006.

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• Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.

  Robert Bridges

  Men, Animal, Air

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• Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

  Patrick Henry

  Example, Looks, Human Nature

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• ....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.

  John Burroughs

  Heart, Feet, Knowing

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.47, Syracuse University Press

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• I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Eight, Human Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1671, Delphi Classics

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• Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?

  Henry David Thoreau

  America, States, Found

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.126, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

  John McLaughlin

  Guy, Feelings, Different

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• It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Destiny, Interesting

  From the Letters of Lord Byron, January 2, 1817.

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• In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

  John Locke

  Example, Imitation, Thee

  John Locke (1813). “The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.129

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• If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.

  Scott Walker

  Can Do, Ifs, I Can

  "Scott Walker Swats Away Heckler, Rouses Audience During CPAC Speech" by Josh Feldman, www.mediaite.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

  Mike Rogers

  Hard Work, Awards, Healthy

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• Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

  Richard Curtis

  Technology, Risk, Quality

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• Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.

  John Newton

  Islands, Space, Long

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1824). “The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character”, p.142

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• Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

  Daniel Webster

  Faith, Heart, Vastness

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.32

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• The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

  Francis Bacon

  Stars, Roots, Together

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• The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant.

  Sarah Gavron

  Struggle, Grandmother, Fighting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.

  Sarah Gavron

  Equal Pay, Issues, Rights

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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