"How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world."
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"and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world."
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"To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity."
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"The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
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"In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."
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"God's Providence controls the universe. It is present everywhere. Providence is the sovereign Logos of God, imprinting form on the unformed materiality of the world, making and fashioning all things. Matter could not have acquired an articulated structure were it not for the directing power of the Logos Who is the Image, Intellect, Wisdom, and Providence of God."
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"The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan."
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"We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion."
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"Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf."
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"I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live."
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"I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world."
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"Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell."
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"The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there."
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"If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you."
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"All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World."
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"For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence."
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"You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget."
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"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
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"She was no longer theirs. She was his. And he was hers. And this was their world."
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"Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people."
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