"My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game."
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"I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners."
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"It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world."
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"In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it."
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"I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving towards some other place, moving away from puny language, from all that dread into some other kind of language."
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"A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world"
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"Misery is the River of the World"
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"The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas."
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"You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special."
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"The world is what you think it is"
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"When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter."
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"All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats."
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"The world is begging for you to lead."
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"In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself."
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"I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on."
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"Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it."
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"Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy."
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"What a thing friendship is - World without end."
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"I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world."
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"Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man."
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