"Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons."
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"Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world."
"Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose."
"There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world."
"The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth."
"I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated."
"In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!"
"There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone."
"All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us."
"Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen."
"A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade."
"If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world."
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty"
"I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world."
"I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world."
"If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world."
"Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world."
"Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all."
"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."
"The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most."