The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider als... NICOLAUS COPERNICUS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER In short, if youth is not quite right in its opinions, there is a strong probability that age is not... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Some of these post-bubble things make sense. The real question as a buyer is whether there is so muc... RICHARD DAVIS If he is a God of sound judgment, that sound mind must be revealed in people who identify themselves... SUNDAY ADELAJA The question at this point is not whether Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, it's whether he should b... JOANNE MARINER So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to... C.S. 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WINSTON CHURCHILL Dying of tuberculosis: The earth is suffocating.... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't ... FREDERIC CHOPIN A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the sam... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands a... J. DONALD WALTERS I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH The question is whether there is a next generation of the Media Center to make it more integrated wi... JEFF BRAY Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth rem... NICOLAUS COPERNICUS What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whe... LARENZ TATE It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come ... 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DAVID BYRNE If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer a... THICH NHAT HANH If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only ... PETER S. BEAGLE He [Vaughan] is ruled out of this Test, but is not out of the series at this stage. Vaughan is to re... ANDREW WALPOLE In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fac... ROMAN POLANSKI If it is maintained that anything so small as the Earth must, in any event, be too unimportant to me... C.S. LEWIS One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked... MICHAEL HAYDEN The important thing is not whether the Fed can ease but the fact that people can even ask that quest... CARY LEAHEY It is not a question of whether we retain the majority in 2006, but how strong that majority will be... 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AVISHAI DEKEL If we see a star at a large distance from the center of the galaxy, that star is going to be mostly ... JOEL PRIMACK One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, ... DAN MAFFEI We don't suggest that because San Francisco citizens live on top of an earthquake fault that they sh... JOHN BREAUX During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that ques... EVERETT DIRKSEN Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so ove... CLARENCE DARROW The serpent may, without being poisonous, raise high its hood, but the show of terror is enough to f... CHANAKYA To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of bein... TRUMAN G. MADSEN Our planet is dying. Whales will be extinct before we ever get to know them. They say these creature... LORETTA SWIT Whenever you feel that someone is angry or someone has collided with you, you always think that he i... OSHO The question is to know whether Israel wants peace or not, and if it is ready to respect its interna... MAHMUD ABBAS Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Ar... J.R.R. TOLKIEN
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She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
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Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
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Or to her virtues be a friend,
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Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin... EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
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