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"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"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."

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

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions."

"A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it."

"Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world."

"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
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"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."
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