"The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it."

Earth, Nothing, World

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"The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it."

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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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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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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)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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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."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

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"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."

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"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

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"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."

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"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

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