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As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
You don't begin by dehumanizing those who are dehumanizing you, because it contributes to the cycle of dehumanization in the world.
It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.
Environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.
I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course it needn't be.
We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.
I think L.A. is L.A. I can go anywhere in the world and I'll just say I'm from L.A. But when I'm there I gotta say I'm from Carson.
I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .
What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.
I live in a world where there's magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and in the meanest way.
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
I have heard that the most valuable thing in today's world, postindustrial world, is the human being's attention and how to get it.
When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.
There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.
The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.
The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.
I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented
My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.
Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.
The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.