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World Quotes
"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
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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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"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
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"One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself."
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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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"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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"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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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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"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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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
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"A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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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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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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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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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
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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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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
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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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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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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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"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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