"The rich live the same all over the world."
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"Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories."
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"I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition."
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"Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it."
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"Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment."
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"In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker."
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"In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate."
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"The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS."
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"A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty."
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"As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world."
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"There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it."
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"I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it's one of my favorite parts of the world to tour."
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"As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible"
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"Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world."
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"This is official today. China has surpassed the U.S. and now has the No. 1 economy in the world. After hearing this, China's children asked, 'So now can we take a lunch break?'"
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"Oprah Winfrey just announced that she's planning to attend Barack Obama's inauguration. Oprah says she's very excited to see Obama become the second-most powerful person in the world."
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"For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world."
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"Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians."
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"The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world."
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"You're trying to just leave the world a little better."
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