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"And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up"
"If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does."
"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
"They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
"I just feel out of this world sometimes."
"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."
"Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it."
"Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps."
"Love is the most durable power in the world."
"The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization."
"People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them."
"The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here."
"The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world."
"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world."
"The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope."
"On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream."
"It is the stillness that will save and transform the world."
"That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted."
"When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment."
"People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer."
