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"At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever"
"The world is crammed with delightful things"
"Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do."
"[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you."
"As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick."
"All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not."
"If you see a biker chick hanging out with a group of bikers and associated with them, stay away. You'll know right away if a biker chick is free; if she's with someone, she's right by his side. Getting with somebody's old lady is a big no-no. That's more serious than anything in that world."
"When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world."
"The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world."
"Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love."
"Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century."
"The great soul of this world is just."
"Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas."
"My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right."
"He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world."
"The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world."
"The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the glory and presence of God, and nothing is any more separated from God."
"I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world."
"We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality."
"And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway."
