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"How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today."
"The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'"
"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
"I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness."
"Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you will always have yourself."
"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world."
"The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty."
"Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what."
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
"Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world."
"As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs."
"On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed."
"The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other."
"There are no more worlds to conquer!"
"The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come."
"I do not see the world at all; I invent it."
"To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness."
"Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane"
"The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour."
