"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."
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"Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few."
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"This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system."
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"I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded to me very much like the tradition of a hired man in any world-class poem. That's what I was, a hired man. I was working for a collective farm."
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"We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention."
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"Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived."
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"We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat."
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"Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor."
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"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
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"It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual."
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"We will never have peace without friendship around the world."
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"Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being."
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"There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world."
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"The world is run by the people who show up."
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"The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic."
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"On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non facit saltum.” This canon, if we look only to the present inhabitants of the world, is not strictly correct, but if we include all those of past times, it must by my theory be strictly true."
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"If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world."
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"Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do."
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"The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change."
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"There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence."
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