"Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates."
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"There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world."
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"If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls."
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"I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world."
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"...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has a fatherly concern for humankind. Though God has lowered Himself to being that which can be chosen, yet each person must on his part choose. God is not mocked. Therefore the matter stands thus: If a person avoids choosing, this is the same as the presumption of choosing the world."
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"Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together."
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"If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence."
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"Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon."
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"In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"
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"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
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"You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you dont have your health, you have nothing."
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"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
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"The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you."
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"I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world."
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"There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference."
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"People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you."
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"When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance."
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"The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel."
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"Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear."
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"All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour."
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