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The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.

classic quote by Ferdinand Magellan
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The earth? A cosmic accident. The life? A chemical accident. The man? A biological accident.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence. Thus there may be not one marvel to speak of in a century, and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monsters of all sorts swarm suddenly upon the earth, comets blaze in the sky, eclipses frighten nature, meteors fall in rain, while mermaids and sirens beguile, and sea-serpents engulf every passing ship, and terrible cataclysms beset humanity.

David Garnett in Lady into Fox (1922)
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just a moment –
distant lightning connects
sky and earth

haiku by Adjei Agyei-Baah from Afriku (Haiku and Senryu from Ghana) (2016)
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

classic quote by Federico Garcia Lorca
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Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist." In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up! But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability... A day of unlocked potential. Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you? Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!

Vera Nazarian in The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

quote by Matt LeBlanc
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

classic quote by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

quote by Arthur C. Clarke
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

classic quote by Jorge Luis Borges
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