"The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one."
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"Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception."
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"It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child."
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"Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."
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"We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots."
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"Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world."
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"I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven."
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"Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars."
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"The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country."
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"Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted....For in all the world this state of heart is best."
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"Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond."
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"A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you."
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"The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity"
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"As the world is increasingly interconnected, everyone shares the responsibility of securing cyberspace."
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"Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world."
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"For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world."
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"We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly."
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"Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity."
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"Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?"
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"But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one."
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