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Be alert. The world needs more lerts.
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
Half of the people in the world are below average.
This world doesn't need fixing. It needs changing.
"Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot."
"Nothing in the world is friendlier than a wet dog."
Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
"I'm not mad at the world... just at all the people in it."
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
-- Robert Cringely ("InfoWorld")
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
-- Franz Kafka
'Mundus vult decipi'

(the world wants to be deceived)
I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
"If hackers ran the world, there'd be no war. Lots of accidents, maybe."
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Gandhi
Arithmetic: An obscure art no longer practiced in the world's developed countries.
Of all the truths in the world, humor is the most satisfying and often the healthiest.
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing milk bone underwear."
-- Norm (Cheers)
Primus in orbe Deus fecit timor.
"It was fear that introduced gods into the world."
Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
-- Horngren
"We all know god invented liquor to keep the Irish from ruling the world."
(The Ghost and The Darkness)
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley
Insanity, a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
-- R. D. Lang
An eye for an eye soon makes the world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
-- Paul Beatty
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
-- Lily Tomlin
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."
-- Henrik Ibsen
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
-- Friedrick Nietzsche
"...screws fall out all the time, sir. The world is an imperfect place."
-- Bender (Breakfast Club)
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
-- Steven Wright
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
-- E. B. White
Punctuation is important. There is a world of semantic difference between "Damn straight." and "Damn, straight."
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey
"And then the world went mad. All right, madder."
-- Terry Pratchett (Pyramids)
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
-- Hemingway
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

-- Oscar Wilde
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- Mark Twain
If we couldn't laugh at things that didn't make sense,
we couldn't react to a lot of the world around us."
(Calvin & Hobbes)
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
"As long as the music's loud enough, we won't hear the world falling apart."
-- Derek Jarman
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
"The computer world is like a great big toy store. But all the toys are broken."
-- Steve Witham
"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
-- Horace Walpole
"One of the CIA's few endearing traits is its penchant for making headlines. It is the world's most fully headlined secret agency."
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Especially Bob Dylan.
-- Jim Rosenberg
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
-- Carl Sagan
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
-- Gen. Omar N. Bradley
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
The fact that I know I'm often a fool, but that I also have an IQ a fair bit over a hundred, scares me. What fools the rest of the world must be.
"In America sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it is a fact."
-- Marlene Dietrich
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
-- Anais Nin
'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.
-- Keith Sullivan
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
-- Mark Twain
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwile."
-- Franklin P. Jones
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
-- Margaret Cho
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
-- Amy Lowell
Laugh, and the world laughs with you. But you know most of them didn't get the joke in the first place, the lying weasels.
-- Wade Kwon
"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."
-- Henry Louis Mencken
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."
"When your world looks kind of mean, and you wish that you weren't there.... Just close your eyes and look beneath, and you can be anywhere...."
(Muppet Babies Theme Song)
"The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
-- H.P. Lovecraft
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
-- Alan Keightley
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
-- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
There's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.
-- Silent Bob (Clerks)
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have trained for years and years can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
-- John Burroughs
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves but wiser people are full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
"Your uniform is very... informative."
-- The Doctor (to Seven of Nine)
"You just realize you're not on Happy Days. It's the real world; You need to ignore what you are programmed by sitcoms to think your life should be."
-- Trent Reznor
The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
-- Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures)
"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"
-- Linda Ellerbee
"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world."
-- Russell Baker
Unfortunately, there are like five people in the world who understand the X keyboard model--I'm not one of them--and three are insane. It's that bad.
-- Tim Showalter
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.
-- Bertrand Russell
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
-- Robertson Davies ("A Voice from the Attic," 1960)
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
‘You,’ he said, ‘are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.’
-- Emilie Autumn (The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls)
The world, especially for the middle and upper classes, is much more fool-proof then it used to be. A fool-proof environment causes an increase in the number of fools.
-- Hillel Gazit
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
-- Mark Van Doren
Nobody's creepy from the inside, Hazel. Some of them are sad, and some of them hurt, and some of them think they're the only real thing in the whole world. But they're not creepy.
-- Neil Gaiman
We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being increasingly capable.

-- Peter Cochrane
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them.
-- Albert Einstein
"A child does not have to be taught how to be happy or the ways of love. It is fear, hatred, & prejudice that have to be taught. And from the condition of the world we can see that unfortunately there are some very good teachers."
-- Javan
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
-- Oscar Wilde
The world is your oyster, you know. it smells like seawater and it might clamp shut on your finger and inside there's a glob of something that's like a big living glob of snot, and maybe - *if* you're lucky! - a little deformed pearl.
-- Lisa Kellner
"...why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."
-- Ayn Rand