"We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new."
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"Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb."
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"You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble."
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"I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed."
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"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
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"The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm."
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"Photography is an empathy towards the world."
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"The world is a magnificent place. What are you going to do with it?"
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"Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself."
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"It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame."
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"Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?"
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"There is only one question: / how to love this world."
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"In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone."
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"Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace."
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"When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way that when it is time for you to leave this world, you will smile at parting while the world cries for you. Hold this thought and you will always remember to consider others above yourself."
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"When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you."
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"There is not enough tea in the world to calm me."
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"We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later."
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"I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world."
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"The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome."
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