"Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good."
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"Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world."
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"The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit."
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"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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"But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]"
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"Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes."
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"When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing."
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"... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being"
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"In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world, if poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day."
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"In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence."
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"I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university."
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"The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?"
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"I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it."
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"I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall."
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"Words and a book and a belief that the world is words."
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"Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with."
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"The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism."
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"But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying."
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"of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence."
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"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter."
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