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"Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life."
"I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that."
"The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room."
"Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it."
"We live in a real world. Come back to it."
"I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world."
"A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle."
"The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world."
"The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor."
"Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds."
"The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves."
"Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them."
"The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done."
"The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes."
"None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The world that's important is the world behind each of our eyes, which is something that none of the rest of us can access."
"He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world."
"I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great."
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. A man's life is the direct result of his thoughts... We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world."
""All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity."
"Love and serve the world through your work."
