"all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war"
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"He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way."
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"Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in."
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"There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves."
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"The world should forget about cheap oil. The price will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel."
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it."
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"Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures."
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"Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last."
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"Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness."
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"I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world."
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"We get too caught up in the moneymaking part of life. My own biggest concerns are to stay healthy and happy. I think the business will take care of itself and, when I put that thought out into the world, it happens. My company is absolutely growing and growing and growing."
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"Step forward, use your voice, get out in the world, and live!"
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"We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power."
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"I live in a peaceful world because I choose to think loving and peaceful thoughts."
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"Share your joy with everyone in your world."
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"The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us."
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"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright."
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"The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described."
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"I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false."
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"Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it."
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