"We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?"
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"A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself."
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"The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good."
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"Sisters make the best friends in the world."
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"Yes, it's a competitive world, but where is your heart?"
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"I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world."
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"It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better."
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"In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask."
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"The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us."
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"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."
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"From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true."
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"New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion."
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"The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world."
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"The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live."
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"No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things."
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"For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world."
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"It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all."
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"Beauty would save the world."
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"The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen"
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"More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined."
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