"It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced."
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"Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund."
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"In this world, you only get what you grab for."
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"The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it."
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"Power is concentrated. The general policy is exactly the way that Adam Smith described it: it's designed for the benefit of its principal architects, the powerful. It serves "the vile maxim of the masters: all for ourselves and nothing for anyone else". Those are the basic rules of the world."
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"Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over."
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"I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen."
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"But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man."
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"There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it."
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"Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor."
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"There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman."
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"Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world."
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"In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives."
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"If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate."
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"[White House is] the finest prison in the world."
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"I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress."
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"It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science."
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"Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world."
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"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."
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"They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink."
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