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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
W. H. Auden
"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
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"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."
Aaron Hill
"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."
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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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"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."
John McGahern
"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
Lewis Carroll
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
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"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
Martin Buber
"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
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"I'm not involved with the female world."
John Lone
"I'm not involved with the female world."
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"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
David Guterson
"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
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"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
Renata Adler
"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
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"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
Louis D. Brandeis
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
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"I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best."
Al Oerter
"I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best."
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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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"More yoga in the world is what we need."
Diane Lane
"More yoga in the world is what we need."
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"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy."
Albert Ellis
"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy."
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"I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone."
Tre Cool
"I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone."
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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
Thomas Hardy
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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"A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world."
Paul Lynde
"A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world."
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"They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan."
Barry Sheene
"They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan."
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"If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again."
Jamie Lee Curtis
"If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again."
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"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."
Bill Withers
"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."
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"You know, it's a long world."
Lawrence Welk
"You know, it's a long world."
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"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."
Jon Postel
"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."
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"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."
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"This world's a bubble."
Saint Aurelius Augustine
"This world's a bubble."
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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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"I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received."
Bill Dixon
"I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received."
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"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
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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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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
Oprah Winfrey
"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
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"Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme."
Bernard Katz
"Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme."
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"I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."
Adam Weishaupt
"I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."
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"Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?"
Boris Becker
"Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?"
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"The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world."
Peter Mandelson
"The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world."
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"As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation."
Jerry Lawler
"As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation."
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"I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year."
Jahangir Khan
"I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year."
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"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world."
George Sand
"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world."
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"I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live."
Thomas Dooley
"I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live."
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"The world changed on September 11, 2001."
Christopher Dodd
"The world changed on September 11, 2001."
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"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."
Thomas Harrison
"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."
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"If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation."
Mason Cooley
"If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation."
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"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."
Miriam Makeba
"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."
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"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
H. G. Wells
"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
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"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
Winona Ryder
"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
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"I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it."
George William Norris
"I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it."
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"The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop."
Eric Hoffer
"The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop."
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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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"While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in."
Dean Rusk
"While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in."
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"I wanted to be the best in the world."
Emerson Fittipaldi
"I wanted to be the best in the world."
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"Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad."
Klaus Schulze
"Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad."
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