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"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
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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)."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."
"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."
"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."
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"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
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