World Quotes
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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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You're too young to let the world break you.
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last!
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
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For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
