"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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"No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk."
"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
"Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world."
"Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large."
"If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I."
"I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place."
"We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."
"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight"
"Everything in the world is purchased by labor."
"If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!"
"A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph."
"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."
"No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure."
"He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains."
"The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing."
"My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better."
"Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister."
"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."
"We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat."