"We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act."
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"And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes."
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"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."
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"Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him."
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"The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end."
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"A writer is a world trapped in a person."
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"I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard"
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"I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is."
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"The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management."
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"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"
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"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."
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"The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world"
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"It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure."
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"Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance."
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"We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception."
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"No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect."
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"May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."
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"We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless."
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"Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them."
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"While acting in Armed Response I was always focused, just so they could see me as a peer and maybe not some idiot who's coming in from the pro-wrestling world. I'm sure they had their preconceived notions about me so I just hope that once we were finished with a scene, or finished with the movie overall, that I managed to change their perspective based on what they were expecting."
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