"I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves."
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"The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it."
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"The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity."
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"You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God."
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"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."
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"We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."
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"Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well."
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"Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking"
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"The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far."
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"The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it"
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"I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world."
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"Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others."
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"It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal."
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"I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of a universe I live in. It's always deepening my understanding of the natural world."
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"The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared human identity in addition to many other identities."
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"I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me."
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"All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless."
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"I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you."
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"Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems."
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"The world fascinates me."
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