"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world."
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"Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world."
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"In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly."
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"The digital world is developing with such force and such a pace that you simply can't ban or control it. People want to be globally connected."
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"Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness."
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"There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World."
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"Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time."
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"I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day."
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"The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges."
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"I wanted to be the best in the world."
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"The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow."
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"Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing."
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"[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally."
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"Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness."
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"Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?"
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"There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children."
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"Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors."
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"The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country."
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"Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought."
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"Lack of world vision in any Christian produces a 'pea-sized Christianity'."
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