On other stars
Attributed by John Burroughs on the first page of his 1920 book Accepting The Universe
Attributed by Carl Sagan at a November 20, 1972 symposium on "Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man", held at Boston University
[Berendzen, Richard, ed., Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man, 1973, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office, Washington, DC, LCCN 73-600150]
"Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man 1975", Google Video, c. 0:02:50, 2006-09-11 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8949469271181885482&q=owner%3Anara+type%3Anasa, Edited version of symposium, released by National Archives, under Google Video partnership http://www.archives.gov/google/.
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Variant: A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. It they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
“People will inhabit places, but increasingly the economy inhabits a space.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
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“This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.”
Source: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 9, The Sum Of The Parts, p. 213
“We inhabit the cities of the dead and their ideas inhabit us every day.”
La generación FaceNoBook, Revista Alma Mater, La Habana (July 2012), p. 5
“You who have inhabited me
in the deepest and most broken place,
are going, going”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78 p. 380
Religious-based Quotes
“Characters,” p. 299
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Variant translation: We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Wasa’ilush Shi’a, Volume 4, Page 85
Shi'ite Hadith
Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Social Ideal, p. 146