The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.
And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
Don't lean on your fellow men -- theirs is an ever moving support.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
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