"If your life changes, we can change the world, too."
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"We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us."
"Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in."
"In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men."
"The world of sleep has an existence of its own."
"...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated."
"What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes."
"Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character."
"If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused."
"Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world."
"The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause."
"God hid the whole world in thy heart."
"There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world."
"Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions."
"God has created the world in play, as it were."
"I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved."
"Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation."
"There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast."
"We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it."
"That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good."