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"Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we canbe of value to other nations of the world and then organize to accomplish the things that you decide to want. Anddon't make decisions with the interest of youth alone before you. Make your decisions because they are good for the nation as a whole."
"The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams."
"Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words."
"You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that."
"I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it."
"It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world."
"I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent."
"There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid."
"The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster."
"The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm."
"The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war."
"It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated."
"I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us."
"Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms."
"Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you."
"If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around."
"we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings."
"As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason."
"... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared."
"Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk."
