"I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?"
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"Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events."
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"It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself."
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"It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship."
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"All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity."
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"The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command."
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"The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind."
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"Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?"
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"Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!"
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"The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read."
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"There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person."
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"The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world."
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"Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world."
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"I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing."
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"One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world."
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"I'm inspired by the resilience of people around the world."
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"I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world."
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"Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and were the assets of Whites."
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"The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world."
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"In the '80s, the world I was living in wasn't this world of consumption. There wasn't that much to buy, really. Actually I'm still struck by that. There's not an awful lot of stuff I want. Somebody quotes Diogenes, who's walking around saying, "How many things there are in the marketplace of which Diogenes has no need." I always feel that. Except of course when you're living in Venice, California and you see all these lovely houses!"
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