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"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
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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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"Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."
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"I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own."
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"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."
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"A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body."
Food

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
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"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."
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"We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness."
Man

"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."
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"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
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"Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life."
Life
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