"The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world."
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"The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully."
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"There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global."
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"The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing."
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"You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too."
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"There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true."
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"I cannot tell you that I am 100-percent comfortable, but for sure I am more confident of my goals, because I know what I can expect from this kind of event. At the beginning, everything was a mysterious, far-from-me world, and now it's more accessible. Of course, exposing myself is always very difficult. I cannot say that I'm a shy person, but I don't see myself as a superstar. I will never see myself like that."
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"It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him."
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"I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out."
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"If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world."
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"I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour."
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"But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?"
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"Books were in the world; the world was in books."
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"When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly."
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"I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum."
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"As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast."
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"Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival."
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"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."
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"The one thing finished in this hasty world."
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"The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does."
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