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A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, "Wish you were here." --Steven Wright
A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
--Stephen Crane
A PBS mind in an MTV world.
A Question
A voice said: Look me in the stars
and tell me truly, men of earth
If all the soul-and-body scars
were not too much to pay for birth...
--Robert Frost
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards, and leads us from this world to another. --Plato
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a dark side, it has a light side, and it holds the Universe together. --Carl Zwanig
Earth First! We'll strip-mine the other planets later.
Earth is 98% full... please delete anyone you can.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. --Gamaliel Bailey
Everywhere we look, starts and galaxies are moving away from us a great speed. Current theories put this down to the universe expanding. It is also possible that they simply want to get away from us...
Happiness is Earth in your rearview mirror.
Hey, count me *out* of this one! Yeah, sure, taking over the world would be great, but then what do we do? *I* don't want to have to babysit the damn thing! --Dan Sohl
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. --E. B. White
I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am. --Thomas Carlyle
I don't want the world, I just want your half.
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
I used to wish the universe were fair. Then one day it hit me: What if the universe were fair? Then all the awful things that happen to us in life, would happen because we deserved them. So now I take great pleasure in the general hostility and unfairness of things. --Marcus, "Babylon 5"
If all the world's a stage, I want better lighting.
If all the world's a stage, then I want to operate the trap door.
If only there was some indication that the Universe was doing it on purpose.
If there's nothing wrong with me, then maybe there's something wrong with the universe. --Beverly, "ST:TNG"
If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like? --Voltaire
If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle. --Rita Mae Brown
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. --Edward P. Tryon
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. --David Bohm
It's you and me against the world: We attack at dawn.
Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party. --Samuel M Silver
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times... --George Ellery Hale
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. --Aldous Huxley
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists as all. --Stephen Hawking
Of course, another way of looking at this is to change your frame of reference. You're sitting still, and the universe is rushing past far too fast. It's hardly *your* fault if the universe won't look where it's going and has inadequate brakes, is it? --Malcom Ray
Of course the Universe hates you. You're working to reduce chaos by expending a lot of energy to do your job. Thus, you're contributing to the eventual heat death of the universe, and it's just protecting itself from you. -- John Batzel
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
--John Gillespie Magee
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway? --Barbara Ehrenreich
Sometimes you fear the world is headed for destruction, then you read the ads in the newpaper and you don't care if it is.
The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. --William J. Broad
The Earth quakes and the Heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together, and the nations of man flock apart; volcanos usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and on other days it just rains.
The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true. --James Branch Cabell
The universe does not have laws -- it has habits, and habits can be broken.
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are. --Robert Fulghum
The world is coming to an end. Please log off.
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. --W. C. Fields
The world is in your hands, now use it. --Phil Collins
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. --Martin Buber
The world's so terrible that one can only make fun of it.
Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective. -- Delenn, "Babylon 5"
There is no gravity. The Earth sucks.
There's no problem on this earth that can't be solved with a liberal dose of high explosive. --Richard Marcinko
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel --Horace Walpole
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. --Goethe
When it's you against the world, bet on the world.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. --Bernard Bailey
Whether you can hear it or not, the Universe is laughing behind your back.
