"A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment."
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"The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family."
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"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."
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"Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener."
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"The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will."
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"We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too."
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"All the world loves a good loser."
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"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."
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"There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether."
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"A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing."
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"Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world."
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"Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce."
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"Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change."
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"The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident."
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"You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first."
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"I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out."
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"As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave."
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"The world is full of Buddhas but they're sleeping."
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"None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature."
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"Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!"
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