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"Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. ...You can't 'stay the course' because you don't have a course."
"I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years."
"Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?"
"I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread."
"He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days"
"Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world."
"Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery."
"You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances."
"Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?"
"Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger."
"The everyday world, as Kant proved, is mere appearance. But it is also the only world in which we can make sense of the idea of a plurality of distinct individuals. We can only distinguish things as different if they occupy different regions of space-time. It follows (a point Kant missed but which the mystics have always understood) that reality 'in itself' is 'beyond plurality' and is, in that sense, 'One'."
"Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world."
"It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me."
"Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource."
"When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be."
"We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent."
"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written."
"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of."
"I am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it."
"The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded."
