"Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96"
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"No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest."
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"We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!"
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"If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?"
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"My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future."
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"Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves."
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"You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight."
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"I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world."
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"Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making."
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"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."
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"What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile."
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"It is Love that will save our world and our civilization."
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"...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save."
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"You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about."
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"There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah."
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"Let's enjoy this world. Let's enjoy one another. We are meant to love one another, not to hate one another."
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"No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches."
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"When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils."
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"In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action."
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"Everything you do either adds to the beauty of the world or takes away from it."
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