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"Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'"
"It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world."
"Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect."
"Love must be the same in all worlds."
"Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves."
"You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next."
"All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true."
"I loved all the world's mythologies."
"You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'"
"What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?"
"I'm interested in getting John Kerry elected President. And then I'm interested in doing whatever I can to see that Democrats retain Democratic values. And the thing I'm most interested in is health insurance for everybody. We're the only country in the industrialized world that doesn't have that, and we need that."
"I have not loved the world, nor the world me."
"But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless."
"Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality."
"I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo."
"Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise."
"Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world."
"All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world."
"His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased."
"Hardly anyone in the world is an American"
