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"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of."
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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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"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food."

"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."

"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."

"Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown."

"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written."

"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects."

"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"

"Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else."
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