"Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one."
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"Given enough coffee I could rule the world"
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"According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world."
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"Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream."
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"Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world."
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"The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit."
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"The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century."
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"Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal."
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"The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism."
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"I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world."
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"One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world."
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"The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom."
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"Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this."
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"The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all."
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"You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities."
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"You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place."
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"I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!"
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"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
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"It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived."
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"One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration."
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