“There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
“The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.”
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Attributed to Thoreau, in The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose (1995) by Dan Millman, p. xi, and to Ralph Waldo Emerson in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) by Dev S. Pathak, Alan Escovitz, and Suzan Kucukarslan, p. 74, but no occurrence of it prior to the 1990s has been located.
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Source: World views. From Fragmentation to Integration (1994), p. 8
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