"Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world."
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"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive."
"I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this. The best place in the world to watch a sporting event."
"Don't leave this world without giving it your all."
"I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world."
"If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see."
"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."
"The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
"If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person."
"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."
"Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions."
"My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world."
"Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget."
"It’s just me against the world."
"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
"Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it."
"We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world."
"My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat."
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."