Quotes with old-world

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  • Antoine Fuqua The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Nancy Reagan The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.
    Nancy Reagan
    American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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  • Camille Paglia The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Karl Kraus The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Bob Shacochis The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Betty Friedan The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Ben Stein The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Willa Cather The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Lech Walesa The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
    Lech Walesa
    Polish trade union leader, activist and president (1943 - )
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  • Doug Larson The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bill Frist The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Charles de Gaulle The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Beckett The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bob Wells The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
    Bob Wells
     
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bertrand Russell The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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