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"Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count."
"In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in."
"I want the world to be better because I was here."
"The world of imagination is the world of eternity."
"For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade."
"Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world."
"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."
"The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues."
"There is a world elsewhere."
"And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags.""
"O, how full of briers is this working-day world!"
"O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?"
"And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot."
"I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults."
"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."
"That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world."
"Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world."
"[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that."
"There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics."
"First sentences are doors to worlds."
