"A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world."
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"The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen." "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world."
"The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!"
"Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese."
"There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India."
"Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well"
"Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe"
"For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world."
"When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved."
"The only morality in a cruel world is chance."
"We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom."
"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."
"And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world."
"This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave."
"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire."
"Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is"
"Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted."
"Actors are one family over the entire world."
"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."
"Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him."