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"It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels."
"The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history."
"I must remember that a good friend is a new world."
"He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world."
"There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end."
"There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being."
"The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds."
"No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education."
"One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at."
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
"At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world."
"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes."
"A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant."
"In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!"
"I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me."
"Not I but the world says it: All is one."
"The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness."
"When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion."
"The world is teeming; anything can happen."
"We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts."
