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"We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas."
"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
"Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm."
"Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm."
"As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do."
"It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking."
"In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world."
"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist"
"God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists."
"God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise."
"There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in."
"The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction."
"If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling."
"It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world."
"With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more."
"We do have the ability to shift our paradigms - by shifting our belief systems, by working on ourselves, by looking very closely at how we show up in the world. It's why I'm into health and wellness. It's why my partner and I are very focused on creating a life that is about being connected; it's about being present. Because my life was probably so much in the past. I was so fearful. I was so fearful of the future because I was so scared of my past. So if you can work towards being present, then you can shift."
"I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything."
"One must be cunning and wicked in this world."
"Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world."
"...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are."
