Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too. - David Muir

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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ― Leo Tolstoy

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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ― Albert Einstein

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Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

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The world sucks, people are not true

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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

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History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

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