"I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world."
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"There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world."
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"The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it."
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"But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated."
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"There are some loony people in this world!"
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"I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home."
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"And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is."
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"The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!"
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"You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen."
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"Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?"
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"I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world."
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"Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards."
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"Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy."
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"There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world."
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"The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for."
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"I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid."
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"I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear."
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"No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore."
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"We merely want to live in peace with all the world."
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"... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future."
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