World Quotes
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Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.
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You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt of. All I ever dreamt of was family. A father and a mother. Most people don't even need to dream of such luxuries, they take them for granted. That is what I used to dwell on, alone in my bedroom. I dwelt as all children do, on the injustice. Injustice is the most terrible thing in the world, Oliver. Everything that is evil springs from it and only a cheap soul can abide it without anger.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
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I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.
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All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for.
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Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
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If your whole world of a band or music is taking place in a digital realm or on technological devices, it's all mediated through those things. That takes away from the experiential and sensual nature of music. That's a lot less exciting for me to think about. It's not my ideal way of living with music.
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How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.
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And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?
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For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.
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You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.
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The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.
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May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
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What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.
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We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.
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I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.
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What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
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We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.
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Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.
