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With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Peace

"Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag

Problems

World

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Susan Sontag

Successful

World

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

Robert C. Solomon

World