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"This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods."
"I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling."
"That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories."
"This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world."
"The world is full of pots jeering at kettles."
"Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down."
"We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have to decide to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do."
"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world"
"The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony."
"In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world."
"Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment."
"I will fly around the world doing good for the environment."
"I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world."
"The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished."
"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."
"What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!"
"It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation."
"The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it."
"And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world."
"It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it."
