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"Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts."
"Forget college, forget everything else, just educate yourself, your world around you, everything around you."
"Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world."
"I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world."
"God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It."
"How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth."
"Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world."
"A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown."
"Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper."
"You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World."
"The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you."
"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist."
"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
"I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world"
"This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends."
"America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
"The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty."
"Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world."
"Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom."
"I had a role in developing the doctrine From the Sea, which was later modified to Forward From the Sea. But the way we looked at the situation was that the world we live in is a dangerous place. There's a violent peace out there, there are going to be problems over the horizon, and certainly that proved to be true."
