"The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future"
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"The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous."
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"the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service."
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"Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world.""
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"This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world."
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"Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it."
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"Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion."
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"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past."
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"The world is more like it is now then it ever has before."
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"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
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"It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself."
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"There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world."
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"The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it."
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"The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore."
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"I love playing. In lots of ways, I think having been able to carry on playing purely out of love rather than having to do it for a living means I still love the drums. It helps that, if I don't want to play, I don't really have to! I'm not the best drummer in the world, but it's something I love and enjoy, and that sounds like a good trade."
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"In the world of comedy, there's this: "If it's going badly, get off. If it's going well, get off". You can't argue with that either."
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"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."
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"I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding."
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"It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last."
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"Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it."
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