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

Voltaire, French Writer

Earth, Opinion, Trouble

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

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Earth,

"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."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Earth, Death, Life, Learning

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Earth,

"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

Earth, Rights, Majority, Minority

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

Lord Byron, British Poet

Earth,

"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Earth, Forget, Light

"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

Earth, Ugly

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Earth, Race

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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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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"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."

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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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"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."

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"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

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

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

"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."

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

"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)."

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

"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."

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

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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."

"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."

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

"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?'"

"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."

"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."

"It is very easy to love alone."

"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."