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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

Learning, Why, Anybody

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso

Place, Artist, Emotions

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers

Hero, Profession

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Religion, Wise, Mother

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

Small, Pretty, Put

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan

Yourself, Forget, Person

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
Chanakya

Power, Truth, Sun

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot

Soul, Bird, Autumn

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
Sitting Bull

Love, Friends, Spring

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

Humor, Cool, Rain

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch

Powerful, Human, Fire

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Agnes de Mille

Power, Beautiful, Yourself

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Frank Sinatra

Music, Face, Delinquent

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Two, Matter

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph

Mother, Rights, Equal

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill

Men, Thoughts, Taken

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Malcom X

Power, Powerful, Control

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac

Power, Equality, May

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine

God, Son, Suffering

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

Learn, Sea, Books

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Bobby Knight

Time, Down, Here

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.
Johnny Depp

Life, Nothing, Young

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius

Again, Fly, Native

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver

Good, Waiting, Him

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher

Here, Heaven, Earned

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes

Courage, Human, Born

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
Sun Tzu

Yourself, Enemy, Saying

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

Real, Serious, Here

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Health, Money

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