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We live on a dynamic planet that evolved from dust into what we call earth.
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This began to grow and to spread out on every side until it became the island which we call the earth.
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But poor Armstrong was killed with a giant's club, a great green club, too big to be seen, and which we call the earth.
The Innocence of Father Brown: The Three Tools of Death Gilbert Keith 1911
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So it will be some day with us who are now engaged in the detailed organization of the little home which we call the earth.
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But poor Armstrong was killed with a giant's club, a great green club, too big to be seen, and which we call the earth.
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It fills my heart with joy to see young men willing to bear such heartship in order to protect, and fight for peace for not just us also for all in this place we call earth.
A Soldier's Story: Recruit is 'changing before our eyes' 2009
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Actually, everything we do in life involves the extraction of resources from this finite pie we call earth.
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"They are the best band ever to be placed on this fine planet they call earth."
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We have necessary desires, necessary passions, and necessary laws for the restraint of both; and while on this our ant-hill, during the little day of our existence, we are engaged in eager and destructive contest about a straw, the universe moves on in its majestic course, directed by eternal and unalterable laws, which comprehend in their operation the atom that we call the earth.
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I'm here to ask that you join me at the single malt scotch bar in this little slice of imperfect heaven I call earth.
Heaven Can Wait 2007
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