"Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time."
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"The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world."
"The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man."
"I feel like I could eat the world raw."
"Having money is just the best thing in the world."
"The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations."
"What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is."
"Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth."
"If you want to change the world, be that change."
"He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world."
"First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world."
"Peace and quiet govern the world."
"The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it."
"Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things."
"When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed."
"I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life."
"My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy burden for me. But I took it on consciously, even though it was torture for me."
"Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy."
"I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it."
"Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian."