"We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious."
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"Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you."
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"The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it."
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"There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason."
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"If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories"
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"See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!"
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"To speak a true word is to transform the world."
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"The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt."
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"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
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"We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential."
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"We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world."
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"It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'"
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"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing."
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"Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion."
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"It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing."
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"My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first."
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"The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you."
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"The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old."
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"If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that."
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"It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world."
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