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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."
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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)."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
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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."
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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."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
Court

"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
Man

"I also found being called Sir rather silly."
Being

"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."
Cancer

"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
American

"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."
Attitude

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
War

"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
Cancer

"The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word."
Change

"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
Being
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