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"Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world."
"Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was."
"If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it."
"The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable."
"If I was a supervillain then I guess I'd want what all supervillains want, which is world domination. I wouldn't want anything less than all the other supervillains."
"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world."
"To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world."
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe."
"Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!"
"It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."
"No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world."
"I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter."
"Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive."
"Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma."
"Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world."
"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."
"The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named."
"I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do."
"I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world."
"Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world."
