"I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project."
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"The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems."
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"Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever."
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"The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around."
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"As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade."
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"Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct."
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"The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one."
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"The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world."
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"He is dead in this world who has no belief in another."
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"The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault."
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"The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation."
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"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."
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"The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims."
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"Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world."
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"Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome."
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"The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil."
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"I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly."
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"At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole."
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"If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat."
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"I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still."
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