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Wystan Hugh Auden : We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine. # Imagination

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P J O Rourke : " Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. " # Imagination

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Source Unknown : " Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed. " # Imagination

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Dr Loretta Scott : " We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. " # Imagination

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Charlie Chaplin : " I am for people. I can't help it. " # Imagination

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Galileo Galilei : " I cannot without great wonder, nay more, disbelief, hear it being attributed to natural bodies as a great honor and perfection that they are impassable, immutable, inalterable, etc.: as conversely, I hear it esteemed a great imperfection to be alterable, generable, and mutable. It is my opinion that the earth is very noble and admirable by reason of the many and different alterations, mutations, and generations which incessantly occur in it. And if, without being subject to any alteration, it had been one great heap of sand, or a mass of jade, or if, since the time of the deluge, the waters freezing which covered it, it had continued an immense globe of crystal, wherein nothing had ever grown, altered, or changed, I should have esteemed it a wretched lump of no benefit to the Universe, a mass of idleness, and in a word superfluous, exactly as if it had never been in Nature. The difference for me would be the same as between a living and a dead creature. I say the same concerning the Moon, Jupiter, and all the other globes of the Universe. The more I delve into the consideration of the vanity of popular discourses, the more empty and simple I find them. What greater folly can be imagined than to call gems, silver, and gold noble, and earth and dirt base? For do not these persons consider that if there were as great a scarcity of earth as there is of jewels and precious metals, there would be no king who would not gladly give a heap of diamonds and rubies and many ingots of gold to purchase only so much earth as would suffice to plant a jessamine in a little pot or to set a tangerine in it, that he might see it sprout, grow up, and bring forth such goodly leaves, fragrant flowers, and delicate fruit? It is scarcity and plenty that makes things esteemed and despised by the vulgar, who will say that there is a most beautiful diamond, for it resembles a clear water, and yet would not part from it for ten tons of water. These men who so extol incorruptibility, inalterability, and so on, speak thus, I believe, out of the great desire they have to live long and for fear of death, not considering that, if men had been immortal, they would not have come into the world. These people deserve to meet with a Medusa's head that would transform them into statues of diamond and jade, that so they might become more perfect than they are. " # Imagination

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline : " "The earth just doesn't want men." " # Imagination

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Hannah Arendt : " The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. " # Imagination

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Anne Sexton : " God owns heaven but He craves the earth. " # Imagination

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Konstantin E Tsiolkovsky : " The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. " # Imagination

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr : " We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. " # Imagination

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine." # Imagination

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." # Language

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " Goodness is easier to recognize than to define." # Goodness

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." # Literary Criticism # Questions # Literature

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " To ask the hard question is simple." # Questions

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation." # Sin # Addiction # Love

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing? But nobody says this. The self-appointed unqualified nurse says: "You are to sing the patient a song which will make him believe that I, and I alone, can cure him. If you can't or won't, I shall confiscate your passport and send you to the mines." And the poor patient in his delirium cries: "Please sing me a song which will give me sweet dreams instead of nightmares. If you succeed, I will give you a penthouse in New York or a ranch in Arizona."" # Justice

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust." # Hatred

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman." # Conflict

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Wystan Hugh Auden: " Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide." # Politicians and Politics

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