"Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun."
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"To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]"
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"I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea."
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"From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world."
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"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."
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"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
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"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
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"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
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"I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me."
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"Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world."
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"You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know."
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"There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart."
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"I'd like more of the world go back to being wild."
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"World history is a court of judgment."
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"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
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"In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors."
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"Fortune and humor govern the world."
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"I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it."
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"A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
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"[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop."
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