"The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel."
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"The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter."
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"Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem."
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"Making money and making the world a better place are not contrary to one another."
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"When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen."
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"The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love."
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"Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer."
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"Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence."
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"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
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"Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching."
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"I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world."
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"The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?"
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"I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism."
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"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."
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"My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me."
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"I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world."
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"Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile."
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"All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here."
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"You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them."
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"I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other"
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