Quotes with old-world

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  • Allen Klein And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Edward Hoagland Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Aulus Gellius Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
    Aulus Gellius
    Roman author and grammarian
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  • Arundhati Roy Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carol Bartz Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • James Baldwin Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Anthony Doerr Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 10 (p. 166)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bonnie Blair Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Bill Mumy Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • John Keats Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Assata Shakur Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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