Quotes with old-world

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  • Campbell Brown While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Carson Mccullers While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Jefferson While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sir William Temple Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Lewis Carroll Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Vilanch Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Who made the world I cannot tell;
    'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
    My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
    I never soiled with such a deed.
    More Poems (1936) No. 19, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • John Florio Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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  • Epictetus Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Mark Twain Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Antonin Scalia Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Jim Bakker Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
    Jim Bakker
    American televangelist (1940 - )
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  • Herman Melville Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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