"I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them."
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"In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it."
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"I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people."
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"With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained"
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"Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped."
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"You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world."
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"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself."
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"So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines."
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"It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world"
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"I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity."
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"Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities."
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"The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived."
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"Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!"
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"The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much."
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"Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult."
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"If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book."
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"The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world."
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"Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again."
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"Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?"
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"It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer."
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