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"There is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exists or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence"
"The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don’t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword."
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
"Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue."
"Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world."
"Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy."
"Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure."
"It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might."
"The customs of the world are so many conventional follies."
"To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success."
"I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be."
"I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned."
"The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land."
"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
"The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it."
"To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone."
"Bob Riley, a kind soul who “treads lightly in this world,” is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence."
"Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out."
"You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed."
"A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world."
