"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."
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"Let us fight to free the world!"
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"Once I re-approached music I had to do it in a way that wasn't so personal for me to feel comfortable releasing it into the world. Well, of course some of them are, but I would never talk in an interview about exactly what a song is about. I like to keep my music and my life separate."
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"I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world."
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"Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is."
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"If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person."
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"My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it."
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"To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from."
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"For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?"
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"I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach."
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"That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out."
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"Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love."
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"Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat."
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"Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence."
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"Suppose someone should offer me a plateful of crumbs after I had eaten a T-bone steak. I would say, "No, thank you. I am already satisfied." Christian, that is the secret - you can be so filled with the things of Christ, so enamored with the things of God that you do not have time for the sinful pleasures of the world."
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"As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit."
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"There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason."
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"In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away."
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"Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch."
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"Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it."
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