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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 is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
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The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
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The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
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The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
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