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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter

Best, Care, Human

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

Fight, Country, Citizen

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

End, Human, Lives

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
William Butler Yeats

Great, Heart, Christian

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Morihei Ueshiba

Love, Place, Heaven

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard

Fun, Long, Keep

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James A. Baldwin

Life, Time, Down

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France

Art, Able, Chance

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
Morihei Ueshiba

Life, Change, Truth

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Sitting Bull

Mother, Away, Her

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Alexander the Great

Two, Cannot, Heaven

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True, Face, Unveiled

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
Sidney Sheldon

Try, Place, Leave

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
Henry Louis Gates

Great, War, Mind

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
John Updike

Life, Rain, Grace

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron

Live, Cruel, Judged

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne

Through, Sure, Walk

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Charles Lindbergh

Life, God, Simple

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Men, Liberty, While

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Women, Men, Best

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Children, Sun, Buildings

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
Brigham Young

Character, Care, Before

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Franz Kafka

Liberty, Away, Opinion

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Jean Paul

Heaven, Miracle, Laws

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver Reed

Life, Sleep, Woman

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Neil Armstrong

Place, Here, Quite

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
Bill Bryson

Time, God, Stupid

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
Marcel Proust

Life, Time, Live

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