"If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black."
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"We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others."
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"I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found."
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"It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
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"It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment."
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"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
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"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
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"We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this."
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"I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do."
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"If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is."
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"We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it."
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"If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd."
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"People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find."
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"Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world."
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"Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop."
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"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."
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"Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world"
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"Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already."
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"It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home"
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