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  • "America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future."
    By: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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  • "There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them."
    By: G. C. Lichtenberg
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  • "If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way."
    By: G. C. Lichtenberg
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  • "The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world."
    By: C. S. Lewis
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  • "Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
    By: C. S. Lewis
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  • "The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
    By: C. Lévi-Strauss
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  • "This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
    By: Doris Lessing
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  • "Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has."
    By: Gerda Lerner
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  • "We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."
    By: John Lennon
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  • "You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."
    By: Bruce Lee
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  • "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
    By: Bruce Lee
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  • "The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it."
    By: David Herbert Lawrence
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  • "Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance."
    By: Joe Laurie Jr.
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  • "Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows."
    By: Lao-Tzu
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  • "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
    By: Lao-Tzu
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  • "Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."
    By: Lao-Tzu
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    By: William S. Burroughs
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  • "Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
    By: Plato Greek philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC)
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  • "At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."
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