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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."

"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."

"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."
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"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
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