"Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself."
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"The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs."
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"The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!"
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"How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy."
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"Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it."
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"My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'"
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"You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me."
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"I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world."
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"There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free."
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"If you are dissatisfied with the way the world works, it is because your heart is prompting you to change it."
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"The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up."
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"Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds."
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"Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world."
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"He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself."
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"There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world."
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"There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it."
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"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it."
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"Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves."
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"The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems."
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"The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution."
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