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To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not...

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If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as st...

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There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as someh...

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I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots a...

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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever ...

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To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind nex...

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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to ...

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Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improve...

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My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over th...

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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz....

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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trust...

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That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For ...

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When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a ...

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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is qui...

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There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in...

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Arthur SchopenhauerParerga and Paralipomena

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

To world enough and time.

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series...

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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full po...

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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ...

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Señor d.‘Anconia, what do you think is going to happen to the world?”“Just exactly what it deserves....

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...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of...

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If that’s the price of getting together, then I’ll be damned if I want to live on the same earth wit...

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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ...

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Such was the code that the world had accepted and such was the key to the code: that it hooked man’s...

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..each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, ...

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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we ...

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We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. T...

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We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and i...

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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of d...

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When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a be...

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The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality a...

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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty...

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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has ...

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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with t...

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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - in...

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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today ...

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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place el...

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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them ...

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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working...

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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make ...

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A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is n...

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Barbara EhrenreichLiving with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I...

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To stomp about the world ignoring cultural differences is arrogant, to be sure, but perhaps there is...

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Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...

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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...

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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealt...

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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same ...

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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negro...

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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for...

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I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the ext...

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With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once yo...

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At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for...

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America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, fr...

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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of hea...

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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtract...

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But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.

It will never end.Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our...

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The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field t...

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What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing wh...

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I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and ...

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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and sti...

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more tha...

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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i...

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an...

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides...

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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most h...

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The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all ...

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Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have travel...

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There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having t...

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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whet...

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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...

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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...

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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for ten...

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The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in com...

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I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You me...

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