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"When women live rich, in every sense of the word - financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually - everyone wins: you win, your family wins, your community wins, and the world wins."
"She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her."
"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
"We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things."
"Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think."
"Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different."
"Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that."
"Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples."
"Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world."
"I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense."
"No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do."
"For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home."
"We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world."
"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious."
"Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world."
"Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world."
"Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on a talk show, 'I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.'."
"It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance."
"Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud."
"The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world."
