Quotes with old-world

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  • George Washington 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene 'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Ezra Pound 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carine Roitfeld 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Salman Rushdie A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Marcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Alice Duer Miller A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Bruce Friedman A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
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  • Larry Wolters A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'
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  • Joseph Addison A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Carolyn Wells A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Peter Marshall A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
    Peter Marshall
    Scots-American preacher (1902 - 1949)
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  • Tony Benn A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Cass Sunstein A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Albert Einstein A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Henry Fielding A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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