"The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities."
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"Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty."
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"Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order."
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"It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you."
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"There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world."
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"I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation."
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"What Hamas and the Palestinian people are doing is legitimate resistance against the Israeli occupation. Our resistance is confined to the territories inside Palestine and only targets the Israeli occupation. We are not blood-mongering killers who kill innocent people around the world."
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"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world."
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"One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world."
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"Popular dissatisfaction seems to occur only when the shopping or the commercials are interrupted. In such an atmosphere, is there any reason to imagine that saturation shopping could be a source of instability to the U.S. world position?"
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"Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice."
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"By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved."
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"from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this."
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"When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both."
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"Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible."
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"It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world."
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"Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope."
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"China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world."
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"American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them."
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"I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.--Rachel Morgan"
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