"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."

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"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."

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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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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

Ayn Rand, Russian 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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"If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth."

Alan Patrick Herbert, British Novelist

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"Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most."

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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."

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"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."

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"The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled."

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"Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster."

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"Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself."

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"Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty."

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"Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations."

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"The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center."

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"Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign."

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