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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
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J. W. Schopf
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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.
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Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
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William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
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Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.
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Nancy White, Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide, SXSW 2006
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