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World Quotes
"Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white."
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"And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?"
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"Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma."
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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original."
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"The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion."
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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code."
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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
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"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it."
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"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."
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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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"A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions."
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"My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything in the world."
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"Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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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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"We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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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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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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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 the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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