The Man from Earth Quotes

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Harry: Edith, I was raised on the Torah, my wife on the Qu'Ran, my eldest son is an Atheist, my youngest is a scientologist, my daughter is studying Hinduism, I imagine there is room there for a holy war in my living room, but we practice live and le...

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Edith: [talking about God] He's everywhere. We just can't see him. Harry: Pfft. If this was the best I could do, I'd be hiding, too.

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Dan: Time... you can't see it, you can hear it, you can't weigh it, you can't... measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of... becoming, what we... are, in stead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanos...

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Edith: [Angry] Where were you in 1292 A.D.? John Oldman: [Calm] Where were you a year ago today?

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Dan: There's absolutely no way in the whole world for John to prove his story. Just like there's no way for us to disprove it. No matter how outrageous we think it is, no matter how highly trained some of us think we are, there's absolutely no way to...

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John Oldman: Believe in what He tried to teach without the rigmarole. Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistakes they bring to the lessons.

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John Oldman: And that's what I taught, but a talking snake made a lady eat an apple, so we're screwed.

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Dan: I'm going home and watch Star Trek for a dose of sanity.

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John Oldman: What if a man from the Upper Paleolithic had survived until the present day?

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[John walks back in the room] Harry: Well, you're finally fulfilling one prophecy about the millennium, John. John Oldman: What's that? Harry: Here you are again.

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John Oldman: Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistake they bring to the lessons.

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Edith: Are you sorry for some of those things you said? John Oldman: I'm sorry I said them.

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Harry: I can give you the ten commandments in ten words: "Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't."

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[last lines] Sandy: You never saw your own child die... John Oldman: No.

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John Oldman: I suspect I saw the British Isles from what is now the French coast. Huge mountains on the other side of an enormous deep valley that was shadowed by the setting sun. This was before they were separated from the continent by the rising s...

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Dan: The objective measure of a clock, is another clock.

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Edith: You think that's all religion is about... selling hope and survival?

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Harry: [insistent] *You* are creating the mystery here obviously y'have something you'd like to say. Say it. John Oldman: [Hesitant] Maybe... I... Harry: [sing-song] Ten, nine, eight, seven, si... Sandy: [Chiding] Harry, stop. John Oldman: There is s...

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