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"I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place."
"But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?"
"The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere."
"After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time."
"Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world."
"Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity."
"You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world."
"Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world."
"Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end."
"It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."
"I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her."
"Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you."
"It's a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return."
"There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time."
"Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share."
"Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?"
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
"In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected."
"If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it."
"There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world."
