"I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world."
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"I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world."
"I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world."
"It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith."
"The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world."
"George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world."
"All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk."
"If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?"
"A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience."
"Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose."
"He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart."
"It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by."
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."
"There are different kinds of people in the world."
"Money is the best lotion in the world."
"The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more."
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."
"The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more rested when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling."
"My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself."
"I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine."