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Letter "O" » our planet
«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 function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Our planet / is poorly equipped / for delight./ One must snatch / gladness / from the days that are. / In this life / it's not difficult to die. / To make life / is more difficult by far.»
Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
| Keywords:
by far, equipped, gladness, our planet, poorly, snatch, snatches, snatching
«Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
another planet, hell, maybe, our planet, planet
«I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not the most popular idea ever expressed. Either that or you're all real high and agreeing with me in the only way you can right now. (Starts blinking)»
Author: Bill Hicks
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
agreeing, blink, blinked, blinking, blinks, drugs, evolution, expressed, facilitate, facilitated, most popular, naturally, O.K., ok, our planet, planet, popular, Right Now, speed, speed up, starts
«It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
another planet, continuous, distant, ours, our planet, perhaps, pick, pick up, planets, scream, screamed, screams, wavelength
«Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies , and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attempting, cold comfort, comet, Comets, comforting, consolation, contradiction, contradictory, inherited, our planet, patterns, presents, Revelations, scarcely, skies, vanish, vivid
«If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
another planet, different, event, feeling, our planet, planet, reside, resided, residing, system, worrying
«Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
another planet, any, copyright, impossible, law, our planet, planet, sense
«Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
another planet, knew, our planet, planet, star, sun
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