"When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world."
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"and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure."
"For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go."
"We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world."
"We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out."
"I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism."
"The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it."
"Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our character. Let's participate in what God is doing in the world."
"We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world."
"It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites."
"If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is."
"Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world."
"There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for."
"I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes."
"We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world."
"My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world."
"Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?"
"I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable."
"There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore."
"Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live."