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"The sad thing is that often when you expose your secrets and become more honest with yourself, you find the reaction from the outside world is more complicated than the intense guilt you yourself have inflicted."
"When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise."
"Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine."
"I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life."
"If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest."
"One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed."
"South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world."
"The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming."
"I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things."
"I think Americans really need to start thinking globally. As resources become more dear, we will be pulled closer to the rest of the world anyway."
"The world knows nothing of its greatest men."
"Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light."
"What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?"
"Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care."
"The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world."
"The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings."
"The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own"
"The seeing have the world in common."
"There is a nobility in the world of manners."
"There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions."
