"I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing."
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"You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment."
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"[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues."
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"It is dangerous to live in a secure world."
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"The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny."
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"The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory."
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"The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?"
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"After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all."
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"All isn't well with the world."
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"I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them."
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"I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics."
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"The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world."
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"Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment."
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"If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it."
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"Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but 'fighting for peace?' Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace."
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"I think that right now we're in a very hard moment and off-putting. I mean, look at shoes today - women's shoes. They couldn't possibly get any higher and meaner and sharper. But then again, you go and watch most films today, they're violent and we're living in a world that is, at the moment, quite hard."
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"Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population."
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"The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned."
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"We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us."
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"All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways."
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