Quotes with old-world

Quotes 3241 till 3260 of 3762.

  • A. E. Housman We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Walter Lippmann We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bre Pettis We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • May L. Becker We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
    May L. Becker
     
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  • Arthur Henderson We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Mark Twain We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • John D. Mcdonald We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Bella Abzug We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower We have heard much of the phrase, ''peace and friendship.'' This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ''peace and friendship, in freedom.'' This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Thomas Paine We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Norman Cousins We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Adam Clayton Powell We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bill Maris We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Arthur C. Clarke We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Swami Ramdas We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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