"And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock."

Earth, Walking, Will

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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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."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English 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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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

Lord Byron, British Poet

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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."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"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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"He that shuns trifles must shun the world."

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"Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license."

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"Pure innovation is more gross than error."

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"Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed."

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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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"He that shuns trifles must shun the world."

"Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs."

"Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license."

"Pure innovation is more gross than error."

"Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height."

"I am ashamed the law is such an ass."

"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."

"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."

"Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed."

"For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still."