Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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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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  • Edward Blishen The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • Matthew Arnold The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Preston Bradley The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Basil O'Connor The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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  • Bianca Walkden The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.
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  • Michel Faber The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
    Source: Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Billy Idol The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Charles Kingsley The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Beryl Markham The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Karl Kraus 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.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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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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  • Benjamin Graham 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
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Albert Camus The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • W. M. Thackeray The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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