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"When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions."
"I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully."
"You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face."
"Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today."
"On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world."
"the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent."
"The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop."
"The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy."
"Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world."
"I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made."
"Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work."
"We ought to look the world frankly in the face."
"No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness."
"A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value."
"It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We should not have had either the Nazis or the Communists if that had happened."
"If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another."
"So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an attempt to change the world, has been important from the first, and has continually increased in importance, until it has almost ousted theoretical science from men's thoughts."
"I do so hate to leave this world."
"I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another."
"To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes."
