"The world went mad and used us as an excuse."
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"You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'."
"The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you."
"Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions."
"Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity."
"The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet."
"So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there."
"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."
"The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing."
"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life."
"Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love."
"We're so accessible, we're inaccessible. We can't find the off switch on our devices or on ourselves.... We want to wear an iPod as much to listen to our playlists as to block out the rest of the world and protect ourselves from all that noise. We are everywhere - except where we actually are physically."
"The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening."
"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today."
"what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools."
"I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier."
"During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not."
"I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart."
"I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think."
"Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat."