Quotes with old-world

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  • Carlo Ratti Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Abdallah II Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Tranquility is the old man's milk.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Britney Spears Traveling around the world is really strenuous for me, being in a different bed every night, flying and everything.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Blake Mycoskie Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Ben Parr Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Felix E. Schelling True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
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  • Pliny the Elder True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Socrates True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bayard Taylor True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Ben Hecht Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Betty Williams Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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