Quotes with old-world

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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • William Blake To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.
    Auguries of Innocence
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Arthur Henderson To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Michael Korda To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Emily Post To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Eric Hoffer To the old, the new is usually bad news.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bow Wow To the world, I'm Bow Wow. When I leave here and I go to L.A., and I go to my daughter's house and I sit with her, I feel like Shad. I'm not Bow; I'm 'Daddy.' It's, like, the illest feeling in the world. I feel like I'm away from everything.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Samuel Beckett To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bill Nye To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Albert Einstein To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barnett Newman To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Boxer To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • John Berger Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Lin Yü-tang Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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