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"a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world."
"Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world."
"When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere."
"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?"
"Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it."
"I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city."
"In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity."
"Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation."
"Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all."
"God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world."
"The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be."
"Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?"
"We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others."
"A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!"
"There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution."
"...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble."
"The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it."
"What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse."
"The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre."
"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round."
