"The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods."
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"I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them."
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"Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
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"Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase."
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"The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole."
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"No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed."
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"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
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"One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage."
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"Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences"
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"The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment."
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"This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!"
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"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world."
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"And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control."
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"God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are."
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"When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world. Its just the end of a world, that you had with one girl."
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"As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much."
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"Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world."
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"I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens."
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"Look into the mirror of the world, and you will see only yourself."
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"The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector."
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