World
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
My smile has been my ticket to the world. Smiling releases the same feel-good hormones you get jogging. Caring for your lips and gums is important. I brush my teeth morning and night, alternating toothpaste brands. In addition to flossing, I use a Water Pik to massage my gums and remove food particles.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box', people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye — it is very beautiful.
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
We owe our World War II veterans — and all our veterans — a debt we can never fully repay.
Innovation is critical to the heartbeat of any successful corporation in the industrialized world.
That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well — even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.
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