"But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly."
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"I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do"
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"We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. Its also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world."
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"Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings."
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"One of my least favorite things about being even remotely recognizable is that I'm not allowed to watch in the same way anymore. You try not to hide from the world because you want to still participate and still be inspired by what's around you."
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"We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are."
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"Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different."
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"This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star."
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"Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him."
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"This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options."
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"To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym."
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"Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one."
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"I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself."
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"This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue."
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"I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self."
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"All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."
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"The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men"
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"You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe."
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"I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion."
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"I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world."
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