Quotes 2841 till 2860 of 3762.
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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
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The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
To make a Great an Honest Hive.
T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
Without great Vices, is a vain
Eutopia seated in the Brain.Source: The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23 -
Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
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There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.
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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
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