"The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything."
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"I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’"
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"I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter."
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"The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?"
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"This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness."
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"The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world."
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"I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world."
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"Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not."
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"If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’"
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"If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons - and not all those stupid things that people tell you you're useful for."
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"The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary."
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"I was the world in which I walked."
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"The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire."
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"For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
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"Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world."
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"It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end."
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"Our holy lives must win a new world's crown."
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"There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world."
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"If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man."
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"Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel."
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