"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not."
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"There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world."
"Your world is as big as you make it."
"It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine."
"Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod."
"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other."
"The eyes of the world are upon you."
"In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it."
"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul."
"The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right."
"The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times."
"Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire."
"God alone is the author of all the motions in the world."
"The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world."
"We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me."
"In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people."
"There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you."
"In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand."
"Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?"
"Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares."