"Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke."
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"The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world."
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"You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!"
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"What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things."
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"Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic."
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"The world is the totality of facts, not of things"
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"The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy."
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"Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people."
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"The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport."
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"What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?"
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"They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours."
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"It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave."
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"The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination."
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"Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it."
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"The world will be changed by western women."
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"Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace."
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"We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
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"To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man."
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"As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future."
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"I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness."
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