"Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world."
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"Half the world knows not how the other half lies."
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"The world used us as an excuse to go mad."
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"In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself."
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"You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville."
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"The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington."
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"I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world."
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"Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us."
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"It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment."
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"... women are the pivot round which the world turns."
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"Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world."
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"People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire."
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"Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible."
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"I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read."
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"And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me."
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"This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings."
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"The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend."
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"The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums."
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"Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies."
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"The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit."
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