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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. -- Charles de Secondat
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study. -- Ellen Stofan
There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield. -- Michael Shaara
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. -- Leo Tolstoy
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth. -- Christian Nestell Bovee

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