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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. (Allende Isabel)
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. (Allende Isabel)
Everything done in the world is done by hope. (Allende Isabel)
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers. (Allende Isabel)
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. (Allende Isabel)
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. (Allende Isabel)
God had created the world in play. (Allende Isabel)
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. (Allende Isabel)
For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you. (Allende Isabel)
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. (Allende Isabel)
God owns heaven but He craves the earth. (Allende Isabel)
Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party. (Allende Isabel)
The world knows nothing of its greatest men. (Allende Isabel)
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves. (Allende Isabel)
The real world is not user-friendly (Allende Isabel)
Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence. (Allende Isabel)
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. (Allende Isabel)
The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. (Allende Isabel)
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. (Allende Isabel)
When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part of the problem or part of the solution? (Allende Isabel)
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them. (Allende Isabel)
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