"Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does."
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"In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?"
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"You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy."
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"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."
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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
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"On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters."
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"Military men are the scourges of the world."
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"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
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"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
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"Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world."
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"I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it."
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"Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul."
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"In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out."
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"When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice."
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"Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to."
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"The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred."
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"have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom."
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"To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable."
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"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."
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"I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world."
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