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  • Phantom and my mans Ock, whose holding it down in the label world.

    illRoots 2008

  • Wallace says that the whole universe was made to take care of and to keep steady this little floating mote in the center of it, which we call the world.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • XXIII Consider how many different things, whether they concern our bodies, or our souls, in a moment of time come to pass in every one of us, and so thou wilt not wonder if many more things or rather all things that are done, can at one time subsist, and coexist in that both one and general, which we call the world.

    Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

  • Wallace says that the whole universe was made to take care of and to keep steady this little floating mote in the center of it, which we call the world.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Wallace says that the whole universe was made to take care of and to keep steady this little floating mote in the center of it, which we call the world.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Christ enjoyed with a little band of friends an intimacy which the Hindu gave to none, but from the very commencement of his mission he is at enmity with what he calls the world.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

  • There is no such thing as providence, nor do the gods concern themselves with the kaleidoscopic medley of atoms in transient combination which we call our world.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • There is no such thing as providence, nor do the gods concern themselves with the kaleidoscopic medley of atoms in transient combination which we call our world.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

  •  You should be cautious in my presence; I am perfectly capable of shattering the shell you call your world.

    Fringe Element 2010

  • It seems strange to me to see the word “non-profit” attached to an event, because it calls another world.

    Working For Fame Or For Cash — Climb to the Stars 2008

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