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• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title “Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”

  Vaclav Klaus

  Book, Blue, Green

  "DECKER: 5 Questions with President Vaclav Klaus". Interview with Brett M. Decker, www.washingtontimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.

  Newt Gingrich

  Real, Ambition, Want

  Washington Post Interview, January 3, 1985.

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• The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Heart, Justice, Comforting

  "LatinoBuzz: Interview with Q’orianka Kilcher". Interview with Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.

  Jason Silva

  Moving, Moon, Novelty

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• Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Worst, Humans, Happens

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• Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.

  Carlos Eire

  Korea, Soul, Everyday

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• I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

  Marc Webb

  People, Population, Saws

  "Exclusive Interview: Director Marc Webb on (500) DAYS OF SUMMER". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

  Michael De Luca

  People, Laughing, Littles

  "Producer Michael De Luca Says His Heart Is With the Scrappy Independents". Interview with Scott Timberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2011.

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• We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos.  Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Spring, Long

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• The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

  Janine Benyus

  Burning Fossil Fuels, Want, Fossils

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• We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Government, Please

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• Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Stars, Cosmos

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• Man seeks answers from afar
  Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets
  but has not even gone into the silence of his being

  Rajneesh

  Moon, Men, Silence

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• You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happy, Beautiful, Song

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Penguin

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• The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and other organs to perform its vital functions, created the enormous mass of the planet thirteen hundred times larger than our earth, and launched it in its course round the sun, and the comet, wheeling with a velocity that would carry it round our globe in less than two minutes of time, and yet revolving through so prodigious a space that it takes near six centuries to encircle the sun!

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  God, Two, Space

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 274), 1895.

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• The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Rotting, Arteries, Leafs

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• The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful commerce of nature. And all because of dissimilarity--because no one thing is sufficient in itself, but calls for the assistance of something else, and repays by a contribution in turn.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Ocean, Blessing

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• We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

  Michael Crichton

  Self, May, Three

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• A job is a sacrifice. Following an interest - that's a contribution. And we're here on the planet, not to sacrifice ourselves, but to make a contribution.

  Robert Holden

  Life, Jobs, Sacrifice

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• Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.

  Phil Plait

  Stars, Astrology, Connections

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• We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Stars, Astrology, Jupiter

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• The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Anomalies, Deals, Explanation

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Responsibility, Roots

  "Inner Peace, World Peace : Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence". Book by Kenneth Kraft, p. 2, 1992.

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• Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Character, Blow

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• During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Fighting, Voice, Want

  "Gaddafi defends Somali pirates" by Argaw Ahine, www.nation.co.ke. February 5, 2009.

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