"Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force."
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"There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them."
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"I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world."
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"Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting."
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"The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian."
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"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children."
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"The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge."
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"The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive."
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"If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us"
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"It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live."
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"The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
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"One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. Thats very important."
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"I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world."
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"The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius."
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"It is now, and in this world, that we must live."
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"I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility."
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"It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed."
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"Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found."
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"This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural."
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"I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind."
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