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"Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves."
"The end of the world will be legal."
"I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot."
"Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice."
"One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them."
"When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world."
"Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!"
"I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world."
"...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself."
"Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world."
"The whole discord of this world consists in discords."
"Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?"
"If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world."
"Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations."
"Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are."
"Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning"
"Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world."
"When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator."
"What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!"
"Who knows but the world may end tonight"
