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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Source: Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) -
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
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I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
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I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
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I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems - members come and go - and some of the world's biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!
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I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.
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I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
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I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
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