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"If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words."

"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."

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

"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."

"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."

"We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth."
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"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."


"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."


"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."


"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral."


"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."


"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher."


"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."


"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour."
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