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Jimmy Buffett Musician, Author
World

"My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars."

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Joe Murray Artist, Illustrator
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."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
World

"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."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
World

"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."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
World

"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.]"

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
World

"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."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
World

"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.]"

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