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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
World

"So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out."

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer
World

"Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last."

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Jonathon Keats Artist, Philosopher
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"I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it."

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Jose Saramago Writer
World

"When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?"

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Jose Saramago Writer
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"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet."

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