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"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."
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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
"But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth."
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"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter."
"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."
"We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other."
"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy."
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