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"We`re putting ourselves - we`re basically double taxing made in America products. And so what we`re saying is let`s equalize this so that we`re on a level playing field, so that American-made goods and services are on a level playing field with the rest of the world."
"Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept - what opens up your world - and what to reject - what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery."
"You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead."
"We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it."
"If it is not to make the world better what is money for?"
"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
"The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world."
"There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed."
"Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be."
"The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another."
"Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world."
"The doors of the world are opened to people who can read."
"In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world."
"I wonder how they deal with mice at Disney World."
"The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see."
"The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror."
"Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are."
"One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality."
"Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world.""
"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
