"We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon."
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"Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world."
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"The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth."
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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
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"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."
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"The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words."
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"I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing."
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"Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer."
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"Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world."
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"I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world."
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"Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless."
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"The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering."
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"Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world."
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"They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)"
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"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world."
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"All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own."
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"No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love."
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"If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect."
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"It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you."
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