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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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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
"But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth."
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