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"There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless."
"Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man"
"What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy."
"The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever."
"This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower."
"You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world."
"Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks."
"There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art."
"I am a little world made cunningly."
"How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?"
"Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause"
"Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are."
"If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor."
"Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world."
"The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts."
"I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel."
"Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day."
"For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world."
"Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world."
"Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again."
