"Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives."
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"When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all."
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"The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur."
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"Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered."
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"Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities."
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"Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst."
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"Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic."
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"The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions"
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"The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality."
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"In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts."
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"The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour."
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"Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me."
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"We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves."
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"I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me."
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"The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet."
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"Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world."
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"No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world."
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"You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world."
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"All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified."
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"Authority and example lead the world."
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