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"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others."
"Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome."
"... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be."
"The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty."
"The saviors of the world, society's last hope."
"In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative."
"I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work."
"Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical."
"To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood."
"Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly."
"Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know."
"The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing."
"Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century."
"New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world."
"To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be it's really, you know, still fascinating for me."
"Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is."
"Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world."
"To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?"
"For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world."
"Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years."
