"The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do."
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"Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect."
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"I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand."
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"The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in."
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"I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world."
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"I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world"
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"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."
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"You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you."
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"So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation."
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"The road must eventually lead to the whole world."
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"I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right."
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"The great events of the world take place in the brain."
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"People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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"I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still."
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"There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it."
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"Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized."
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"Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes."
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"The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that."
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"If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day."
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"Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor."
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