Quotes with old-world

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  • G.W.F. Hegel To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bruce Catton To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Paul Auster To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
    Timbuktu (2010) 59
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean Baudrillard To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bruce McCulloch To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • William Shakespeare To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
    The Observer, 21 August 1955
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Carl Hiaasen To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Boomer Esiason To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Ruth Hubbard To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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  • Anna Lindh To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Confucius To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Albert Einstein To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Karl von Bonstetten To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
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