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Quotes 2741 till 2760 of 3762.

  • Alcee Hastings The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Barry Diller The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Avicenna The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Dwight Whitney Morrow The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
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  • Francis Picabia The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ben Sweetland The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
    Ben Sweetland
    American psychologist and author
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  • Benjamin Franklin The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Percy Ross The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
    Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Robert Frost The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • W. C. Fields The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • William Ellery Channing The world is governed by opinion.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is his who has money to go over it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Samuel Johnson The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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