"When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us."
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"If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability"
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"A loveless world is a dead world."
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"To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes."
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"In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown."
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"There are great books in this world and great worlds in books."
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"To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world."
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"When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident."
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"The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness."
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"I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world."
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"Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release."
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"After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?"
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"In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting."
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"I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)"
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"The world is his who can see through its pretension."
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"The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]"
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"Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world."
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"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."
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"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."
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"Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time."
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