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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
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The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
Source: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864 -
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. I, The Problem of Raw Materials, p. 5 -
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, and there the greatest heroism has been secretly exercised.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
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