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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
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A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
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A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
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A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
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A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
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A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 192 -
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
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