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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
Alan Watts
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
Pierre Schaeffer
"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"The world loves to be deceived."
Sebastian Franck
"The world loves to be deceived."
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"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."
Johannes Tauler
"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."
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"No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed."
David Hume
"No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed."
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"We have become the charnel house of the Western World."
William Kunstler
"We have become the charnel house of the Western World."
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"Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!"
Kelly Clarkson
"Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!"
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"It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it."
Sachin Tendulkar
"It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it."
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"Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do."
Toni Braxton
"Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do."
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"Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of "The Lord of the Rings". From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually."
Sean Bean
"Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of "The Lord of the Rings". From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually."
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"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
Joseph Conrad
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
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"The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago."
Andrew Denton
"The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago."
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"We don't live in a world that's black and white."
Shannon Elizabeth
"We don't live in a world that's black and white."
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"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."
Finley Peter Dunne
"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."
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"I am not the world's most confident person."
Heston Blumenthal
"I am not the world's most confident person."
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"It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me."
Kim Elizabeth
"It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me."
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"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world."
Jimmy Wales
"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world."
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"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."
Kate Millett
"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."
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"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us."
Walter Gilbert
"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us."
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"I have X'd myself from your world."
Charles Manson
"I have X'd myself from your world."
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"This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world."
Anna Lindh
"This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world."
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"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."
John Keegan
"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."
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"You know, it's a long world."
Lawrence Welk
"You know, it's a long world."
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"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
Douglas Sirk
"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
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"All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics."
Gregory Nunn
"All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics."
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"Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world."
Joey Ramone
"Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world."
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"The World Cup is a truly International event."
John Motson
"The World Cup is a truly International event."
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"Not all the coal that is dug warms the world."
Mary Harris Jones
"Not all the coal that is dug warms the world."
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"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."
Alfred Kinsey
"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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"The world ultimately is what we say it is."
David Friedrich Strauss
"The world ultimately is what we say it is."
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"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible."
James Joyce
"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible."
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"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."
James A. Garfield
"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."
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"I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one."
Giulio Andreotti
"I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one."
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"I am a citizen of the world."
Demosthenes
"I am a citizen of the world."
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"The world is a pile of grunge."
Jo Stafford
"The world is a pile of grunge."
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"At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back."
Tony Curtis
"At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back."
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"That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there."
Story Musgrave
"That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there."
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"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
Boris Pasternak
"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
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"Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world."
Bobby Darin
"Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world."
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"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."
Ivan Lendl
"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."
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"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
Laurence J. Peter
"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
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"The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."
Carlo Goldoni
"The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."
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"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent."
Harold Bloom
"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent."
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"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
Marcus Garvey
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
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"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it."
Ridley Scott
"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it."
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"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
Stephen Gardiner
"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
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"A usurper always distrusts the whole world."
Vittorio Alfieri
"A usurper always distrusts the whole world."
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"It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world."
Alice Hoffman
"It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world."
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"You do not defend a world that is already lost."
Garet Garrett
"You do not defend a world that is already lost."
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"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
Frederik Pohl
"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
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