"Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so."
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"There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own."
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"The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself."
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"The history of the world is the world's court of justice."
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"Beauty will save the world"
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"The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue."
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"I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of."
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"In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things."
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"A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption."
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"Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly."
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"Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest."
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"The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead."
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"I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world."
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"If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later."
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"The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there."
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"The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable."
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"Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion."
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"There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus."
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