Planets Quotes - Page 13

• Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

  Linda Hogan

  Law, Together, Torn Apart

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• narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.

  Anna C Salter

  Self, Narcissist, Sense Of Self

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• If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet-and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually-then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Real, Justice, Working Together

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• [My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

  Harold Urey

  Intelligent, Race, Doubt

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• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  Carl Sagan

  Christian, Ideas, Perfect

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.212, Ballantine Books

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• If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

  Al Gore

  Mother, Years, Atmosphere

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• The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Home, Elderly

  Pope Francis (2016). “Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home”, p.17, BookBaby

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• First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Responsibility, Political Will

  Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. October 10, 2014.

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• From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

  William Allen White

  Leadership, Spiritual, Adventure

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• Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world
  unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. Even though I can't prove that, even though it isn't logical - I believe it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Believe, Unseen, World

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.258, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Destiny, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.477

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• The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.

  Albert Pike

  Stars, Moon, Light

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.660, Simon and Schuster

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• We must occasionally remind ourselves of our brief visit on this planet. Shouldn't we try to express ourselves clearly, make a personal stamp on our environment, and pay attention to the details that make the difference?

  Charlotte Moss

  Differences, Design, Trying

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• Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stars, May, Meteors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.53, 谷月社

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• Do you still believe it impossible we exist? You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe. How can any race be so stupid?

  Ed Wood

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

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• No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

  Jose Rizal

  Ocean, Light, Ideas

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, April 04, 1893.

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• There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Air, Gravity

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• The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world ... we need to reflect on our accountability before those who will have to endure the dire consequences.

  Pope Francis

  Change, Accountability, Environmental

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.33, Orbis Books

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• The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Life, Past, Men

  Jeremy Rifkin (1989). “Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History”, Touchstone

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• Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.

  Jill Tarter

  Stars, Giants, Generations

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• To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

  Lawrence Bender

  Government, Effort, Critical

  "America’s Young Minds: A Neglected Renewable Resource" by Lawrence Bender, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2012.

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• It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.

  Prince Ea

  Home, Heart, Gay

  "Dear future generations: Sorry". Prince Ea's video address to the people about mitigating climate change on Earth Day, www.globalcitizen.org. April 22, 2015.

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• We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.

  Matt Damon

  Kids, Water, Age

  "Actor-screenwriter-producer Matt Damon, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 11, 2012.

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• I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Men, People, Giving

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks THE CLIENT LIST, Using Social Media, and Directing the Season Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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