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  • Hortense Calisher The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Betty Buckley The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Peter Ackroyd The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Barry Diller The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Thomas Paine The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Francis H. Bradley The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Richard Cecil The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Barbara Mikulski The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • George Villiers The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Charles Dickens The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Martin Luther King The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • José Saramago The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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