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World Quotes - Page 488

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.975, Delphi Classics

the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1911). “The Sick-a-bed Lady: And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-day, The Runaway Road, Something that Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business”

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.

"Defining a Decade: Envisioning CSTB's Second 10 Years". Proceedings of CSTB's 10th Anniversary Symposium, www.nap.edu. May 16, 1996.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks