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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."
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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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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)."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
Pleasure
"The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years."
Politics
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
Mathematics
"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."
Art
"I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase."
Literature
"People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story."
People
"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
Happiness
"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."
Love
"Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit."
Society
"A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."
Road
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