"In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum."
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"If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code."
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"Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell"
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"Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner."
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"The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty."
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"The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."
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"He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale."
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"No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing."
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"Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world."
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"To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?"
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"The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued."
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"... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other."
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"It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning."
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"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."
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"In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'."
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"Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits."
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""Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?"
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"Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors."
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"There is only one type of story in the world-your story."
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"Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?"
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