"Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself."
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"The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world."
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"I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing."
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"The Third World is not a reality but an ideology."
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"All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!"
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"Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance."
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"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."
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"To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion"
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"Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms."
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"Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge."
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"This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice to their magnifiying effect. On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society."
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"The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love."
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"A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds."
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"The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves."
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"The world doesn't make sense until you force it to."
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"World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated."
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"Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours."
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"With our love, we could save the world."
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"The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down."
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"There are such repulsive faces in the world."
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