"In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best."
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"The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery."
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"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."
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"One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough."
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"The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system."
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"The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!"
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"I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry."
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"It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy."
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"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."
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"I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world."
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"As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense."
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"Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."
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"You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it."
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"We owe the world an encounter with God"
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"In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world."
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"Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world."
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"Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole."
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"Give me a world, you have taken the world I was."
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"Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent."
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"I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours."
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