"To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already."
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"One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world."
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"Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt."
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"The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves."
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"Russia is bent on world domination."
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"Putting the World to Rights"
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"When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock."
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"It's a funny old world."
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"To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here."
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"In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too."
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"I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy."
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"I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music."
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"I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too"
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"I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world."
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"I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the world, the poet is just one more reader."
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"Syllables govern the world."
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"Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."
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"I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed."
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"We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now"
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"We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it."
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