Planets Quotes - Page 28

• As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the planet Pluto. We can't disprove it. But that doesn't mean the theory that there is a teapot is on level terms with the theory that there isn't.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Pluto, Levels

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• We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Awe And Wonder, Movement, Mystery

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• Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.

  Shari Arison

  Heart, Simple, Ideas

  "Women in Business Q&A: Shari Arison, Owner the Arison Group" by Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2014.

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• I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Environment

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• Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet.

  Peter Singer

  Fighting, Arrogance, Environmental

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• The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.

  James Gleick

  Fall, Blow, Ideas

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

  John Guare

  Names, Venice, People

  "Six Degrees of Separation". www.imdb.com. December 8, 1993.

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• Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

  Robin Williams

  Pluto, Mickey, Mice

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• The white race will either inhabit planet earth in totality, or it will not survive at all. There will be no in between in our future.

  Ben Klassen

  Race, White, Earth

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• I was one of the loneliest people on the planet. You can be incredibly well known and very alone. And thats who I was. I was a well-known person who was very alone.

  Sheila Walsh

  People, Well Known, Wells

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting when I was a kid, and I've earned a living as an artist all my life. It's my job in the sense that it's everything I am, the only thing I know how to do. I literally do not have qualifications to do anything else on this planet. Seriously, it's scary. [But] I don't consider it a job [because] it's my religion - it's my faith, it's my family, it's everything to me.

  Torquil Campbell

  Jobs, Kids, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think we're totally responsible. But you know, all the bands said it, that we did. Even Courtney Love said that. Anyway, Courtney called her band Hole, get it? Slits? Hole? So it's pretty clear we were an influence on all of them, but I'm not really sure how far it goes. I was on a different planet at the time.

  Ari Up

  Thinking, Different, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

  David Douglas

  Trying, Madagascar, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was the biggest conflagration that this particular planet had seen. There was a lot of talk about utopia and how it was possible, and then, because of these events that for one reason or another couldn't be stopped, the idea of utopia went out the window.

  Glenn Close

  War, Ideas, Events

  "Mia Wasikowska". Interview with Glenn Close, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 3, 2014.

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• To be honest I think my read is people are now taking this seriously. They realise that the game is up and the planet and all of us - I mean all of us - have to really start doing something much more drastic in order to try and contain the impacts.

  Chris Barrie

  Mean, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.

  James Purdy

  Dope, Race, Poison

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Malick's movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he's an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Aliens, Separation

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

  James McAvoy

  Powerful, Consciousness, Awareness

  "Into the Mind of James McAvoy". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  House, Bed, Void

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• A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

  William Beebe

  Country, Grateful, Firsts

  William Beebe (2012). “Galapagos: World's End”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Reading, Serious Person, Practice

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• The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.

  Jim Tully

  Moon, Night, Men

  Jim Tully (2004). “Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography”, p.167, AK Press

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• The Mars Rover sent back stunning photos [last week] indicating the past presence of water. The pictures show tiny splotches of blue on the Red Planet. The other theory is that the satellite dish on the rover accidentally picked up CNN's election coverage.

  Argus Hamilton

  Past, Blue, Cnn

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• The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

  Ted Nelson

  Research, Save The Planet, Objectives

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• Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

  Nick Clegg

  Children, Responsibility, Growth

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