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		There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eddie Rickenbacker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Haile Selassie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				R. D. Laing 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hans Rosling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Said Sayrafiezadeh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are no friends at cards or world politics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Finley Peter Dunne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zach Galifianakis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aaron Sorkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Randy Travis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. Maarten Troost 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Haile Selassie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yuna 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pamela Meyer