"I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world."
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"It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures."
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"We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me."
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"To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world."
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"I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ."
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"I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on."
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"We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion."
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"There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person."
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"All the world loves a clown."
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"The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities."
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"Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty."
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"The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not."
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"I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost."
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"Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism."
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"The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery."
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"A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world."
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"The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life."
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"I know you want me back. It's time to face the facts. That I'm the one that's got away. Lord knows that it would take another place, another time, another world, another life. Thank God I found the good in goodbye."
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"How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era."
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"The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information."
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