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From birth man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century, than in all of previous human history.
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
I am not a scientist. I am rather an impresario of scientists.
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Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
