"The world is evil only when you become its slave."
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"The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world."
"The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes."
"Columbus gave the world another world."
"Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly."
"The books that influence the world are those that it has not read."
"The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick."
"The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia."
"Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world."
"In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion."
"The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself."
"The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system."
"Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history of imperialism, there were huge demonstrations, before the war was officially launched."
"The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world."
"It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last."
"People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is."
"I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world."
"The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in."
"I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world."
"I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me."