"The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke."
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"There's a point in me where it's beyond sad, seeing the state of the world today. It's so screwed up. It's terrible, and it will be getting worse and worse. More concrete everywhere, more pollution, more radioactivity. There's no wilderness left, no pure air. They're chopping the forests down. They're polluting all the oceans."
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"Wherever I go in the world, when I see devotees, I always say "Hare Krishna!" to them, and they're always pleased to see me. It's a nice relationship. Whether they really know me personally or not, they feel they know me. And they do, really."
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"I find the older one gets the harder it is to keep the weight off, even if one isn't eating very fattening foods. Once, I was able to put foods like those away, and they didn't show up on the bathroom scales the next morning. But that was when I was very physically active, travelling all over the world and burning up more calories."
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"The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger."
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"I'm world-famous in West Bromwich."
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"Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me."
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"On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world."
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"The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace."
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"As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed."
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"There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces."
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"I believe the world will fundamentally change the more women become economically empowered."
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"He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light."
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"In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world."
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"When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world."
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"I want the world to see my body."
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"I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world."
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"I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth."
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"No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing."
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"Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?"
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