I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give. -Diogenes

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ― Leo Tolstoy

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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

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The New Zealand culture and nature is such that we find it very difficult to celebrate creative achievement. In order to get New Zealanders' respect you have to dominate the world like Peter Jackson has done. He is absolutely revered. - Niki Caro

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The world isn't what you think it is.

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Cannot find the comfort in this world.

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The world is full of actors pretending to be human

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You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. -Diogenes

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