"The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority."
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"Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority."
"Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty."
"There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words."
"I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world."
"Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?"
"My work is loving the world."
"I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me."
"Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way."
"I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us."
"I wanted to leave a mark on the world. Doesnt matter how big. I just wanted to make a mark in peoples lives."
"Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children."
"All I am is what I create. It's my blessing to share with the world."
"The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom."
"I will, then, always love sin and the world until I truly sense that Christ is better."
"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."
"As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man."
"Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new."
"When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer."
"A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!."