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His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.

History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the part of the Earth where it actually struck; perhaps even we might cry quits if while one kingdom were devastated, the rest of the Earth were to enjoy the rarities which a body which came from so far might bring it. Perhaps we should be very surprised to find that the debris of these masses that we despised were formed of gold and diamonds; but who would be the most astonished, we, or the comet-dwellers, who would be cast on our Earth? What strange being each would find the other!

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

Human beings really are this virus upon the earth, and the earth's running a fever, you know? If you step away from that kind of inherent human sentimentality and just look at it neutrally, the universe is neutral morally.

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.

I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth.

I actually am a down to earth and easy going girl. Not just another model.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

I always say 300 is a sci-fi movie as much as anything. It's like that could be another planet. It doesn't have to be earth necessarily. That's like when people get so wrapped up in the politics of 300 I always go, "By the way, that's a sci-fi movie. It's not really a historical film.

I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.