"On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there."
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"There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead."
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"The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer."
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"The world is made up of facts, not things."
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"In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee"
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"School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible."
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"The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can."
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"arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way."
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"Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way."
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"We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world."
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"You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?"
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"Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
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"Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him."
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"Enemy occupied territory is what the world is."
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"This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life."
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"The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him."
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"If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable."
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"If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't."
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"We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas."
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"I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world."
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