"I'm honest. It's the world that's awful."
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"Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate."
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"A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world."
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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them."
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"My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it."
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"The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below."
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"I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world."
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"Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world."
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"The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment."
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"Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world."
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"To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now."
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"North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world."
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"The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws."
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"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible."
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"It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part."
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"I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off."
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"The history of the world is the history of the privileged few."
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"I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm."
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"The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds."
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"I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved."
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