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Worldly Quotes (page 166)

George Carlin quote: "If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?"
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? George Carlin
Patton Oswalt quote: "If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on..."
If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness. Patton Oswalt
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost..."
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
Taylor Swift quote: "Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to..."
Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world! Taylor Swift
Thomas M. Disch quote: "All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that..."
All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world. Thomas M. Disch
My world got very big, very fast, and based on a lot of sad examplesfrom the past, a lot of people expect me to get lost in it Justin Bieber
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man."
The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man. Friedrich Nietzsche
And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said." (page 69) Kate DiCamillo
O let me love my love unto myself alone, And know my knowledge to the world unknown, No witness to the vision call, Beholding, unbeheld of all... Arthur Hugh Clough
Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence. Doug Coupland
It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4) Thomas Merton
all the education and good intentions in the world couldn’t help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course. Barack Obama
If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour. J. R. R. Tolkien
Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world. Knut Hamsun
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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