"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."

Earth, Independence, Living, Security

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"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."

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

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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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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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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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"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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"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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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

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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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"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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"If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth."

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"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

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"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."

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"I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation."

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"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain."

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"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."

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"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."

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"This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses."

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