"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."
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"As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that's one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest."
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"I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist."
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"There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive."
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"Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it."
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"Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies."
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"Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine."
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"If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself."
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"Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever."
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"[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical."
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"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense."
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"Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love."
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"The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human."
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"It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me."
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"Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts."
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"The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom."
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"Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure."
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"We cannot choose with whom we cohabit the world."
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"Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike."
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