"may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone."
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"Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world."
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"That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning."
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"Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual."
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"You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness. And it's happening right here."
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"One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world."
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"We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that."
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"Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God."
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"We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution."
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"I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?"
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"I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me."
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"Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world."
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"The outside world is black and white with only one color dead."
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"Tony Bennett, you've helped us share the magic of San Francisco around the world."
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"Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world."
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"I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of."
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"The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point."
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"The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out."
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"Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world."
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"The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?"
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