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"I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
"And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world."
"Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!"
"There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming."
"The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all."
"Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere."
"The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty."
"A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt, there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk."
"Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live."
"Give the world your best and you will get the best out of the world."
"Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it."
"My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world."
"Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource."
"The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level."
"When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism."
"I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms."
"What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace."
"Everything in your world is created by what you think."
"I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it."
"It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world."
