"The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable."
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"It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared."
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"I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world."
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"in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence."
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"Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all."
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"We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace."
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"The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships."
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"We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be."
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"Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? —"
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"The world is always ending, for someone."
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"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"
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"Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed."
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"Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them."
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"One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart."
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"They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another."
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"Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn."
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"The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein."
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"Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child."
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"Without friends the world is but a wilderness."
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"The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world."
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