"If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world"
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"George Best was the greatest player in the world."
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"The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change."
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"All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully."
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"Never say No when the world says Aye."
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"To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life."
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"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."
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"One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission."
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"Pen, wax and parchment govern the world."
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"The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty."
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"The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law."
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"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
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"You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end."
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"It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir."
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"In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'."
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"We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force."
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"The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence."
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"What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?"
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"... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't."
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"I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love."
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