"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
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"I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange."
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"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us."
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"I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train."
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"The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him."
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"In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen."
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"The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation."
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"Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?"
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"For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place."
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"Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world."
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"I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it."
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament."
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"One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."
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"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."
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"A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world."
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"At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity."
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"The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may."
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"There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him."
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"Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house."
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"when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you."
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