Quotes with around-the-world

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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Kaplan To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Oscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eric Hoffer To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bruce Catton To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Paul Auster To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
    Timbuktu (2010) 59
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean Baudrillard To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Carl Hiaasen To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Boomer Esiason To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Ruth Hubbard To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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  • Anna Lindh To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Confucius To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • William Blake To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.
    Auguries of Innocence
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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