Quotes with old-world

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  • Samuel Pepys As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Boris Pasternak As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bill Maris As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bob Schaffer As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Blake Farenthold As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Cass Sunstein As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Billy Parish As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Babe Ruth As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Vaclav Havel As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Barry Commoner As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • John Paul II As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean Paul As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Julie Burchill As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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