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The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
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The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
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The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.
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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
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The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
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The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
Source: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864 -
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. I, The Problem of Raw Materials, p. 5 -
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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