"If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition."
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"I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world."
"TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most."
"The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions."
"By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words."
"There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life."
"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
"I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world."
"We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair"
"Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it."
"The religious world is but a reflex of the real world."
"You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world."
"Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."
"Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin."
"Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake."
"The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers."
"There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
"The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."
"Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not."