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"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable."
"The world will be saved by beauty."
"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
"A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world."
"If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier."
"Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already."
"I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything"
"To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom."
"Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman."
"Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?"
"Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world."
"Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless."
"The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance."
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
"I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world."
"But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today."
"When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'"
