"The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger."
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"By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred."
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"If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world."
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"We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera."
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"We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it."
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"The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas."
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"ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels."
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"Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given."
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"If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die."
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"If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's."
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"It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world."
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"There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic."
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"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world."
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"somehow one must love the world without being worldly."
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"if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small."
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"The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more."
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"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of."
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"World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual."
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"The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world."
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"Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician."
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