"Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!"
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"By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still."
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"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."
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"My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars."
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"Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world."
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"Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world."
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"Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."
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"Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you."
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"I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world."
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"It is impossible to govern the world without God. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor."
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"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it."
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"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind."
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"This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different."
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"The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead."
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"Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you."
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"Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form."
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"We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning."
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"The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small."
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"A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on."
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"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."
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