"All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation."
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"I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself."
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"The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it"
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"The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of Marx,and we have done the greatest service to their propaganda by agreeing that that's what it is."
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"Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense."
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"A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it."
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"Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All of the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature."
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"I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all."
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"It makes you feel really comfortable when someone is like, I'm not going to touch what you're doing. Do what you do and I'll put it out, but as opposed to sticking it out in Dublin and in one shop in London, it's going to go all over the world and you'll have the backing of a PR team and whatever else you need. It was like, cool, that sounds like the right move."
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"Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against."
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"Now that you've grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we'll never make it out alive..."
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"You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China."
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"The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings."
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"God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to God's earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too."
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"Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith."
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"God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things."
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"A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in."
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"Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement."
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"The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient to the large carbon polluters. And so they want to bob and weave and dodge the truth, and pretend like it's still a big controversy, and it's not. They want to pretend that this is up for debate. Like, whether or not the world is round is up for debate, or whether the moon landing really took place."
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"I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world."
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