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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

Quarrel

World

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I went to the Capitol and came to court specifically to draw attention to the problems of the world that directly affect my state of mind and my physical body and to offer a way to clean up the world. This is my intent.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Erich Fromm

Being

World

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Erich Fromm

Connection

World