"America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world."
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"The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it."
"My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars."
"A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world."
"He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!""
"Terrorism has essentially become a franchise in the Middle East and North Africa and increasingly in other parts of the world."
"The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control."
"I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming."
"If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world."
"It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them."
"The world is full of contradiction."
"The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy."
"The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values."
"The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental."
"It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law."
"We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant."
"The best pleasures of this world are not quite true."
"Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]"
"If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art."
"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]"