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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence." ~ Paul Auster
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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that.
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The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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The worst is not. So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
Source: King Lear IV, 1 -
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
― Austin O'Malley
American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932) -
The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
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The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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