"You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world."
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"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory"
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"If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy."
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"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."
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"If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race."
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"I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists."
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"The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully."
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"Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are."
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"Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die."
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"All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers."
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"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."
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"The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people."
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"I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun."
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"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
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"If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known."
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"One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry."
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"I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world."
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"Some make the world go round; others watch it turn."
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"The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world."
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"Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world."
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