"And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place."
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"Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world."
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"We are ever dying to one world and being born into another."
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"We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow."
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"When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?"
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"Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world."
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"How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden."
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"There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness."
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"As we serve our jobs we serve the world."
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"So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world"
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"The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge."
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"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."
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"Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world."
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"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."
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"The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge."
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"A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity."
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"Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad."
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"I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport."
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"When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that."
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"Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound."
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