"If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now."
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"The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could think about it, or stop it. The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes."
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"Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions."
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"It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place."
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"But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself."
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"I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world."
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"Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure."
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"After all, the world is still great."
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"We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning."
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"Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change."
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"I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same."
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"We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged."
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"What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing."
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"The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes."
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"The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air."
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"She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality."
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"I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?"
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"For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world."
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"The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to hear of the Buddha's knowledge and insight and thus enable them to gain purity. They appear in the world because they wish to demonstrate the Buddha's knowledge and insight to the beings. They appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to understand. They appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to enter into the path of the Buddha's knowledge and insight."
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"I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world."
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