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"There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch."
"Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before."
"After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him."
"Do what is right, though the world may perish."
"It's in your hands to make the world a better place."
"Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you."
"Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years."
"The spiritual world is not unlike the natural world: only diversity will save it."
"The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction."
"We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be relaxed, to expose ourselves to someone else, and to give unconditionally. It might be very small and hidden, but if this corner exists, it calls for a search through the complexities of our human relationships in order to find it."
"The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women."
"In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy."
"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."
"The world is a grindstone and life is your nose"
"Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living."
"How you see the world depends on how you look."
"Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness."
"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."
"He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter."
"Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life."
