"Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion."
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"The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!"
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"Give back to the world at least what you've received."
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"We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity."
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"Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves."
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"The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another."
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"World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa."
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"Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world."
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"The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live."
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"Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life."
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"What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it."
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"In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled."
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"For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small."
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"I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe."
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"When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world."
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"The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy."
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"Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine."
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"I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world."
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"The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship."
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"Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing in the world."
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