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Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.

hy is it you can impose a new tax and keep your economy growing? Only if you cut other taxes by exactly the same amount. The problem with carbon taxes around the world has been you dump a new tax onto the economy and it's just adding more tax.

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.

Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

I admire this town a lot. They take care of their own. There's not a lot of places in the world, much less America, that do that. It's just a great place.

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly grounded in historically and culturally specific hegemonic modes of thought.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

I always considered myself bi-racial, because I didn't want to disconnect from either side, and I felt very strongly about that. Now, I understand that the world sees me as a black woman, a person of color, and I'm okay with that.

I always feel that it's weird that anyone else is watching one of my shows on any other TV than my own. It just seems bizarre that somehow it's being broadcast all over the world. I just feel really fortunate to be where I am, and really lucky to have the opportunity to do what I do, and I appreciate every single minute of it.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

I always had faith in the internet. I believed in it and thought it was obviously going to change the way the world worked. I really did not understand why others were selling their stock. As stock prices plunged, I just bought them, one after another, since I had the money. I guess I was rather lucky.