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When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend be...

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While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been abso...

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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrac...

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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctl...

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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and ...

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When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of soun...

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There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfact...

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American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the w...

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Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, compri...

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Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more tha...

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People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first re...

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When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to dea...

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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, t...

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Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high pl...

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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. I...

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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits h...

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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that'...

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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will de...

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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive ...

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You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said a...

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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there wa...

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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new...

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The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every br...

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who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means th...

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The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. ...

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[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has bec...

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man kno...

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn...

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Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everyt...

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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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