Quotes with old-world

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  • Alexander Herzen We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Steve Jobs We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Benigno Aquino III We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Charles Dickens We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Umberto Eco We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 120
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Stephen Hawking We live in a bewildering world.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Anish Kapoor We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Erich Fromm We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • C. S. Lewis We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
    The Weight of Glory (1949)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bobby Doerr We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
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  • Aaron Siskind We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
    Aaron Siskind: photographs, 1932-1978 (1979 edition)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • William E. Gladstone We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • William Gladstone We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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  • Carl Sagan We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
    Cosmos (1980) 217
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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