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We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. – Maurice Maeterlinck	added by anonymous 13 years ago
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." – William S. Burroughs	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him. – Arthur C. Clarke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws. – Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Carbon atoms on a distant planet rearranged themselves into DNA, microorganisms formed, grew backbones, swam around the ocean, mutated into amphibians and crawled onto dry land—and finally a cab appeared at the mouth of the alley. – Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. – Matrix, The	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. – Scott Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. – Neil Armstrong	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. – Michael Brian Schiffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. – Stephen Hawking	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet. – Theodore White	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. – Alice Walker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. – James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. – Michael Crichton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides. – Wayne W Dyer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water. – Loren	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. – Jack London	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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