"You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world."
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"The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me."
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"There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan."
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"The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang."
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"The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world."
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"Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain."
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"Stained glass enabled the modern world."
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"I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world."
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"i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink."
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"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
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"We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes."
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"I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions, do certain biological differences - and they're not necessary ones, given the anomalous state of bodies in the world - become the salient characteristics of sex."
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"The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do."
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"A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty."
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"Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much."
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"The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable."
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"It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world."
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"Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands."
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"The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity."
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"If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?"
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