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Stop thinking this is all there is. . . . Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral. . . . Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel. . . . Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious . . . there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable.

—Mark Morford

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

—John Muir

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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

—James Baldwin

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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

—Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

—Thomas Carlyle

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Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

—René Magritte

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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

—John Updike

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The sun rose this morning at 6:32 A.M. This gratifying event was first reported by Mrs. Dorothy Stetson of Freeport, Long Island, who promptly telephoned the mayor. The Society for Affirming the End of the World at once went into a special session and postponed the arrival of that event for twenty-four hours. All honor to Mrs. Stetson for her public spirit.

—Thornton Wilder

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It was a world full of feelings that I didn't have words for yet.

—Ava Dellaira in Love Letters to the Dead

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The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

—Herbert Spencer

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You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?

—Shannon L. Alder

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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

—Georges Duhamel

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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

—John le Carre

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The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

—John Updike

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