"Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time."
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"The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us."
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"This world's a bubble."
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"Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world."
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"I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone."
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"Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness."
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"[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'"
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"In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain."
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"Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos."
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"In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark"
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"The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution."
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"The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world."
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"Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide."
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"You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors."
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"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles."
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"The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations."
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"The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream."
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"The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world."
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"In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue."
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"How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world."
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