"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

Earth, Heaven

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"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."

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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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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

Voltaire, French 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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"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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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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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"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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"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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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

John Jay Chapman, American Poet

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