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"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."
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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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"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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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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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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"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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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love."
Compassion
"Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be people to whom reality was not good enough, and who would want to try something better."
Technology
"There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality."
Knowledge
"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."
Obsolescence
"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it."
Life
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
Possibility
"The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time."
Leadership
"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence, their experiments did not always succeed."
Omnipotence
"Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world."
Success
"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
Defense
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