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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know


W. H. Auden

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KURT VONNEGUT Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
WILFRED GRENFELL Flowers were put on earth for our enjoyment. We were put here for God's. Essentially we are the Flow...
WILLIAM PAISLEY Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.
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AVA DELLAIRA Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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W. H. AUDEN I am here on Earth to extend love, smiles and hope to all mankind.
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ONIOSUN TEMIDAYO ISAIAH You are here on earth to reform the society where you live and bring God to your country
SUNDAY ADELAJA This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.
MARGARET TURNBULL We are all sailors on the spaceship Earth.
FRANK BRAYNARD Two of the most basic responsibilities we have on this earth are to put God first in our lives and o...
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ILCHI LEE I did not come here on earth to sleep, I came to work.
MITTA XININDLU The one principle of hell is – “I am my own
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Walk upon England's mountains green
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JOHN IRVING We are pouring huge amounts of energy into the biological effort to understand where life came from,...
MICHAEL BROOKS Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
LEWIS MUMFORD But at this point an objection is frequently raised.
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J. GRESHAM MACHEN We here on Earth have long held a fascination with the planet Mars.
CHIKAI OHAZAMA The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.
JOANNA KRUPA Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...
W. H. AUDEN Humility is the way to a successful sojourn here on earth.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Just be yourself and live life, because no one knows with surety what we are doing here on Earth. So...
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AMIT RAY Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH Here is a test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH There are no passengers on spaceship Earth- we are all the crew.
UNKNOWN What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?
SOURCE UNKNOWN What are you doing on Earth, for Heaven's sake?
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LEWIS CARROLL There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
UNKNOWN There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
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GARY F EVANS... Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON We are all here to learn about ourselves and inspire others in our own unique way.
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GARY F EVANS... If I die, its because my mission here on earth is accomplished.
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MICHAEL HARRIS Our enemy is [. . .] and all people like him, who never question their motives or doubt their desire...
SUSAN RIVERS You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
RICK WARREN Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We are commanded on this earth to care about the kingdom and provide for all its needs
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W. H. AUDEN Though I believe it sinful to be queer, it has at least saved me from becoming a pillar of the estab...
W. H. AUDEN Within these breakwaters English is spoken; without / Is the immense, improbable atlas.
W. H. AUDEN Our researchers into Public Opinion are content/ That he held the proper opinions for the time of ye...
W. H. AUDEN Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their conscience...
W. H. AUDEN A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. AUDEN I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Graces dances, I should dance.
W. H. AUDEN Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a jou...
W. H. AUDEN Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. AUDEN We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the...
W. H. AUDEN Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say
W. H. AUDEN Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of...
W. H. AUDEN Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs ...
W. H. AUDEN But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conq...
W. H. AUDEN It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfish...
W. H. AUDEN Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible.
W. H. AUDEN Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today...
W. H. AUDEN Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social science
W. H. AUDEN In the nightmare of the dark - All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each seques...
W. H. AUDEN Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.
W. H. AUDEN When it comes, will it come without warning/ Just as I'm picking my nose?/ Will it knock on my door ...
W. H. AUDEN Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
W. H. AUDEN If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willful...
W. H. AUDEN All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will...
W. H. AUDEN Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and this is his defect, for the supreme ma...
W. H. AUDEN For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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