Quotes with old-world

Quotes 2581 till 2600 of 3762.

  • Michelangelo The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Ben Stein The prosecutors say that Mr. Strauss-Kahn forced the complainant to have oral and other sex with him. How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife? He's a short fat old man.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Campbell Brown The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Arthur Eddington The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Louise Bernikow The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: ''Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?''
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • James Baldwin The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bill Clinton The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Kelvin Throop III The real world is not user-friendly
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  • B. Kevin Turner The reality is the world's shifted; the world's evolved. We now measure ourself by total device space. We have a much bigger opportunity than we've ever had in the past to grow our business, but we have to rethink how we look at our business.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Greg Anderson The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Richard M. DeVos The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Caleb Cushing The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Ben Hecht The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Alexander Hamilton The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • C. S. Lewis The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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