"Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it."
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"Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor."
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"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
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"Whose world is this? The world is yours."
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"I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art."
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"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."
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"Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot this world keeps spinning. And with each new day, I can feel a change in everything."
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"Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world."
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"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance."
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"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother."
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"Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?"
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"It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world."
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"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."
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"My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies."
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"The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities."
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"If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion"
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"In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity."
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"God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world"
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"The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse."
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"The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world."
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