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"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

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

"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

"But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth."
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"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."

"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."

"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
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