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"The world will be saved by the western woman."
"By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside."
"No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production."
"Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?"
"Everything in this world has a hidden meaning."
"When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world."
"Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again"
"Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it."
"If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart."
"The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on."
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."
"There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself."
"I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled."
"What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun."
"I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy."
"There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria."
"It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams."
"When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world."
"I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured."