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"I'd like to continue my education. The physical stuff's great and I think it's great as an actor because you get to live a lot of little lives, but learning more about the world, learning another language, continuing with my Spanish that's important."
"Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again."
"There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact."
"He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world."
"I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young."
"The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood."
"All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!."
"A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world."
"An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world."
"I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad."
"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
"The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being."
"The future is the most expensive luxury in the world."
"One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at."
"The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done."
"The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions."
"We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy."
"I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever."
"The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that."
"We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?"
