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Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dar...

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Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate...

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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head c...

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There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently ...

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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraint...

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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cass...

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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise h...

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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is givin...

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The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enligh...

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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventio...

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I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get pai...

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Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American soverei...

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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and ...

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It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governme...

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Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket...

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My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I h...

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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in contr...

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You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Mod...

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What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are mo...

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Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertis...

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We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's ...

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I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think ...

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The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My...

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We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsib...

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What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off fr...

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Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomo...

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We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and wea...

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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, a...

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The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in ...

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We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any ot...

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Islam cannot have a significant presence in Australia if we are to live in an open, secular, and coh...

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I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of cou...

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You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This ...

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The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of yourchildren, and you assig...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on ho...

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The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil...

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It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknow...

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People just can’t cope with happiness.

A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone...

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from me...

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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for B...

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they ...

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I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that s...

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Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world o...

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There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isol...

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'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. ...

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My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War ...

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...

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Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to...

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In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are resp...

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In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease wou...

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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must kn...

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Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's...

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Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jes...

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You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you.""I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. An...

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The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostil...

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In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of th...

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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become king...

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We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military tra...

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God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and pe...

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God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose th...

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This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscros...

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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each...

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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...

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The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or a...

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I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy...

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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love i...

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I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness...

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I loved the world of imagination.

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world with...

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How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing ...

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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I...

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We live in the world when we love it.

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the ...

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule t...

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I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in B...

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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is somet...

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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation...

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His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. ...

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I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you an...

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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in th...

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The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hu...

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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be...

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Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.