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The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rai
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again....
The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.
-- John Irving, "The World According to Garp...
The world has two kinds of people: Friends and Targets.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
-- Charles F. Kettering...
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
-- Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri (973-1057)...
The world in all doth but two nations bear,-- The good, the bad
and these mixed everywhere. -- Andrew Marvell (1620-1678) -- The Loyal Sco...
The world is a beautiful book, for those who can read it.
The world is a cynic's playground.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
The world is all the richer for having the devil in it, so long as we keep our foot on his neck.

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