"Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom."
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"I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon."
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"Today I create a stress-free world for myself."
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"To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning."
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"That the world is, is the mystical."
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"A more just world is possible."
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"Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman."
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"I say love, and the world populates itself with doves."
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"When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made."
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"Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong."
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"Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace."
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"People support a world they helped create."
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"The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path."
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"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world."
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"In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider."
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"It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world."
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"A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord."
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"When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?"
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"These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed."
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"Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world."
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