"The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know."
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"Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist."
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"I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world."
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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
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"The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot."
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"What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days."
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"There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?"
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"The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery of existence in which all things are created, nurtured, and renewed. In the presence of this mystery, we not only heal ourselves, we heal the world."
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"Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray."
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"The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness."
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"There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world."
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"The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it."
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"What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor."
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"When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat."
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"There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures."
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"Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them."
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"The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world."
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"The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time."
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"I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them."
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"To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride."
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