"you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all"

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Source : William Brighty Rands, “Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World”

William Brighty Rands

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“Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pierce Brosnan". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Such and so various are the tastes of men.”

Source : Mark Akenside (1866). “The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside. With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings including a portrait”, p.62
“I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.”
“The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.”
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

Source : "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.
“Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.”
“Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.”

Source : Speech at Institute of Physics, London, June 2008.
“The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.”

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