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"I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out."
"I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it."
"I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing."
"There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people."
"2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!"
"Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."
"I can change the world with my own two hands"
"What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal."
"We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out."
"and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did."
"Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world."
"The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick."
"Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye of Tao."
"The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy."
"I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy."
"I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to."
"I never believed in the danger of a third world war."
"Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated."
"We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace."
"Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results."
