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"In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world"
"Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality."
"The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive."
"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."
"I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
"Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is."
"The Arabs are terrorists and Israel is making the world a safer place.Well done Israel."
"You are responsible for the world that you live in."
"My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car."
"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."
"We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war."
"The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that."
"There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world."
"There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly."
"Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard."
"HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world."
"A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world."
"A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world."
"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress."
