"Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles."
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"The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love."
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"It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept."
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"...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational."
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"What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world."
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"A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out."
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"When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots."
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"If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind."
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"A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world."
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"There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade."
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"Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?"
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"You are the world and the world is you."
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"As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important."
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"I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy."
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"Adopt the attitude that everything is negotiable. A world of opportunity will greet you."
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"People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody."
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"Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent."
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"One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world."
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"It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing."
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"The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern."
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