"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

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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

Earth, Race

"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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"We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us."

Change, Health, Life, Appearance

"As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones."

Writing, Day, Past, Present, Queen

"These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual."

Age, Religion, Comfort, Conservative

"What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts."

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"Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning."

Time, Body, Meaning, Myth

"The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control."

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"Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life."

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"Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future."

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"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."

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"Myth is, after all, the neverending story."

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