"Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small."

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"Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small."

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

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

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

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