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"The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative."
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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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"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."

"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry."

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."

"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."

"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."

"All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days."

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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