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"We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms."
"Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts."
"An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began."
"There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States."
"The democratic world has come to a dead end; likewise, the communist world has come to a dead end. But the Unification Church is just beginning!"
"Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool."
"Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society."
"To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child."
"Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants."
"Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power."
"No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are."
"This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth."
"Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness"
"We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us"
"I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening."
"It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world."
"We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill."
"I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world"
"No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document."
"I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world."
