"So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!"
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"But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly."
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"I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out."
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"I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?"
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"The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo"
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"You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care"
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"I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone."
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"Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them."
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"Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment."
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"A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in."
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"Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised"
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"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril."
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"This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own."
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"We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia."
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"A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them."
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"Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us."
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"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us."
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"There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain."
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"History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error."
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