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"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."
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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."
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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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"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."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
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"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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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."
Family

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

"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

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

"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

"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

"At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island."
Adaptability

"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

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

"In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas."
People
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