Quotes with old-world

Quotes 2561 till 2580 of 3762.

  • Mao Tse-Tung The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Benigno Aquino III The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Karl Marx The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Vilhjalmur Stefansson The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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  • George Santayana The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Albert Einstein The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
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  • Karl Marx The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia]
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Brian Tracy The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • James Baldwin The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Karl Kraus The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Adam Sedgwick The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
    Adam Sedgwick
     
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  • Germaine Greer The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Bruce Kent The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
    Bruce Kent
     
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  • Susan Sontag The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Albert Einstein The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Joseph R. Sizoo The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
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