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"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."
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"At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back."
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"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world."
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"The world has gotten so interwoven."
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"If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination."
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"I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces."
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"Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next."
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"If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation."
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"I'm interested in the real world."
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"We have become the charnel house of the Western World."
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"If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian."
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"Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life."
Life


"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."
Time


"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."
Experience


"The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection."
People


"It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea."
Man


"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms."
Man


"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."
Poetry


"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."
Writing


"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"
Family


"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."
Travel
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