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"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."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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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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"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."
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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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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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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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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
Life
"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."
Politics
"Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together."
People
"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."
Action
"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."
Heaven
"Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."
Earth
"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak."
Faith
"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
Being
"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."
Flowers
"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."
People
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