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"...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World."
"If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so."
"Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world."
"Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame."
"It is our minds that create this world."
"Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth."
"Believe there is good in the world."
"We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point."
"When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed."
"When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world."
"There is a paradise of form and colors in the world. And because you have eyes still in good condition, you can get in touch with the paradise. So when I become aware of my eyes, I touch one of the conditions of happiness. And when I touch it, happiness comes."
"Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world."
"We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others."
"The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar."
"The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception."
"When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living."
"Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new."
"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'"
"This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?"