"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."

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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

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"CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world."

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"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."

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"I am a citizen of the world."

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"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."

Hosea Ballou, American Clergyman

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"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."

Maynard James Keenan, American Musician

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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'"

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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"

Will M. Cook, American Composer

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