"Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon."
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"Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life."
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"There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him."
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"A little thought is sexton to all the world."
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"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world."
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"Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline."
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"Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?"
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"One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought."
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"The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it."
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"If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability"
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"It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over."
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"Because John McCain stood up, our country is better off. The respect he is given around the world is not because of a teleprompter speech designed to appeal to American critics abroad but because of decades of clearly demonstrated character and statesmanship."
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"I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade."
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"Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world."
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"The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing."
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"In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard."
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"Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world."
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"My grandfather told me that I should have a series of headshots, one with a tennis racket, one dressed as a naval officer, and one dressed as a cheeky chappie. He said, "If you have those headshots, the world is your oyster.""
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"A world without hope, but no despair"
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"The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure."
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