Quotes with around-the-world

Quotes 2101 till 2120 of 3448.

  • Germaine Greer The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Oscar Wilde The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Al Sharpton The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Seneca The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Virgil The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Billy Herman The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Wayne Dyer The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 26
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Agnes Repplier The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Burn Gorman The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Billy Boyd The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • George Orwell The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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