"You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts."
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"After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world."
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"If you ever think you're the only person in the world feeling a certain way, just please know that you're not."
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"I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows."
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"Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
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"Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world."
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"Let us confess it: evil strides the world."
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"The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker."
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"Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter."
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"The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us."
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"What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?"
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"I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else."
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"She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you."
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"There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are.""
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"The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong."
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"Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion."
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"It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world."
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"Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together."
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"Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world."
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