Quotes with old-world

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  • William Blake I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
    The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • George W. Bush I hear you, the rest of the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
    The Telegraph, 15 september 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ingmar Bergman I hope I never get so old I get religious.
    Ingmar Bergman
    Swedish stage and film director (1918 - 2007)
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  • Benjamin Jowett I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me (p. 250).
    Letters
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Gloria Steinem I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bryan Singer I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • David Malouf I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives.
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Voltaire I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • George Eliot I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oscar Wilde I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Malcolm Bradbury I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • George Santayana I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • James Baldwin I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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