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"You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world."
"Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)"
"In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness."
"The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont"
"In this world, only winter is certain"
"If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn"
"Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world."
"What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?"
"To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so."
"A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether."
"Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?"
"One real world is enough."
"Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt."
"It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles."
"Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish."
"I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king."
"It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen."
"On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny."
"I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend."
"The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult."
