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Barney Oliver

"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."

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"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."

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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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"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."
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"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
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"Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars."
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"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."
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"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."
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