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  • William Somerset Maugham The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Anna Lindh The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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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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  • Paul Auster The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence." ~ Paul Auster
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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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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  • William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William Hazlitt The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bill Clinton The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
    Source: at Rosa Parks funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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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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  • Andy Rooney The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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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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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bing Gordon The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anderson Cooper The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.
    Source: Tomcat in Love (2011) 4
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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