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"The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions."
"I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me."
"If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons."
"Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community."
"Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world."
"For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob."
"Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world."
"Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee."
"It's not me but the world that's deranged."
"To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established."
"Money is a most important thing in the world."
"Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life."
"The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world"
"Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world."
"Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world."
"In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor."
"What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves."
"I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away."
"One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love."
"He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty."
