"There is no person without a world."
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"What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?"
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"Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too."
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"There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America"
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"Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection."
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"What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation."
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"Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest"
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"She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected."
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"The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress"
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"It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit."
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"To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes."
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"Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation."
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"Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before."
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"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos."
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"The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book."
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"The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world."
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"There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside."
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"If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life."
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"We divide ourselves up into spirit and human, but essentially we are all a part of the same world."
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"Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize what Jesus meant when he said, "You are in this world, but you are not of this world." You are not here as a human being having a spiritual experience, but the reverse is true: All of us here are spiritual beings having a human experience."
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