"To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer."
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"There's no way anyone in the world is having more fun than I am. I truly believe that."
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"Will you wear my ring so all the world knows yer mine?" Beck wasn't asking for her hand in marriage, but it was so close he might as well be. Riley was deeply touched and she struggled to find the right words. "Yes," she began. "I'd be proud to."
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"The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!"
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"He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again."
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"Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding."
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"I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954]."
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"The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely."
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"It doesn't take a lot of people to create something amazing. It can take one or four people who are really driven and like minded to create something that has amazing meaning and value to millions of people in the world."
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"We want the world and we want it..."
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"I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love."
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"Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind."
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"The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle."
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"Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world."
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"There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform."
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"The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before."
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"In the beginning, all the world was America."
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"The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx."
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"[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest."
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"The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest."
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