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Worldly Quotes (page 520)

Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's... Stephen King
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired."
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired. Chuck Palahniuk
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals. Fulton J. Sheen
I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea Kazimir Malevich
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. Haruki Murakami
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. Pablo Picasso
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write. Daniel Dennett
Annie Dillard quote: "Private life, book life, took place where words met..."
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. Annie Dillard
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The books that influence the world are those that it has not..."
The books that influence the world are those that it has not read. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family. Desmond Tutu
Robert Owen quote: "All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a..."
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer Robert Owen
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too. Malcolm X
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of..."
In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mercedes Lackey quote: "If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world."
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. Mercedes Lackey
Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world. Friedrich Nietzsche

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