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"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."

"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."
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"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."

"A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple."

"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts."

"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"

"A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!"

"Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline."
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