"Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)"
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"There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve."
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"A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell."
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"In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God"
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"Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world."
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"In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty."
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"In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!"
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"You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed."
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"The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government."
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"I am the ambassador to the world. I use music to talk to the world - to try to unite masses. To try to spark conversations. To try and evoke legislation to change that'll really be for the people. That's behind-the-scenes kind of thing for me. And that's what the music is for me."
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"The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need."
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"Anyone who does not in their way of interpreting events around the world is an infidel, regardless if you're a Muslim or you're not a Muslim. That doesn't matter."
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""The Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State": I was happy that we finally got him. And a lot of my colleagues and friends that I know who sacrificed so much, some of them their lives, you know, finally can rest, knowing that he's dead.But also, at the same time, I kind of was troubled that we are now not fighting an organization anymore. The terrorists, the threat mutated to a message. Bin Laden accomplished something way bigger. He had a message that was spreading around the Muslim world."
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"As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world."
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"Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books."
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"I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future."
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"To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification."
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"The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world."
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change."
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"The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually."
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