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"Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us."
"The end of the world begins the moment you die."
"Alexander the great was ask how he conquered the world he said, "by not waivering"."
"I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world."
"In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter..., it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen."
"There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction."
"Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature."
"The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]"
"The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force."
"Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature."
"All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature."
"You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it."
"I get scared because I regard women as the most beautiful creatures in the world."
"There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society."
"The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn."
"I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come."
"The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world."
"Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied."
"In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams."
"Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in which we readers see ourselves. The natural world is the place into which all my characters have to situate themselves in order to be who they really are, and that makes my rural fiction feel different from a lot of urban fiction."
