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"Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest."
"Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world."
"Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know."
"May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world."
"All progression is in the relative world."
"I love art more than anything in the world except for my family."
"When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders."
"I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds."
"I've been on a plane before with more money in jewelry than my life insurance policy, and it's one of the scariest feelings in the world... if you lose it, you have to pay for it yourself, and you don't even get to keep it!"
"No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'"
"Right, we've got these institutions of media, these financial institutions, we have the means of distribution, we have the means of production, we have all these markets and maxims in place. How do we alter the consciousness, the fundamental unifying field? How do we influence change on that level to all of the world?"
"If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible. Because there are single lines in the Bible where if you just take them at face-value, they don't make any sense whatsoever in the world we see, we know, and we understand."
"The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up."
"What I would do to change this planet is have everyone meditate and look inside. Then we'd have a happier, more service-oriented, less-needy world."
"I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been."
"If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one."
"I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you."
"I think some of the best movie stars in the world are guys who stay in their lane. You can lose an audience if you start saying, "Now I really want to do something that is just for me, but on a massive scale." That's a dangerous mix."
"I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that."
"A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance."
