"Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection."
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"No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can."
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"It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
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"So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?"
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"The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me."
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"We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives."
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"We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them."
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"The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established."
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"We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability."
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"The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them."
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"The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well."
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"It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
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"Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people."
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"It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers."
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"The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind"
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"Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves."
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"I was working in the gap where Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted communism and Warhol appropriated the protest image and named it riot, which is precisely what King didn't want his cause to be associated with. But that was the very thing that made it sexy to the art world. So I played between the two associations."
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"One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural."
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"We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore."
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"India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world"
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