Quotes with old-world

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  • Emma Goldman Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • James A. Garfield Ideas control the world.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Jean Baudrillard If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Ben Klassen If there is one thing in this wonderful world of ours that is worth preserving, defending, and promoting, it is the White Race.
    Natures Eternal Religion Natures Eternal Religion (1973), Ch. 2
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  • Rohinton Mistry If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.
    Faceboek (2016)
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Kofi Annan If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Assata Shakur If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Ouida In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Herman Melville In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Harold S. Geneen In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Joseph Addison It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Adam Schiff It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Hambly It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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  • Pat Barker It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Lay me on an anvil, O God.
    Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
    Let me pry loose old walls.
    Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
    Prayers of Steel (1920)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Arthur Laffer Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Ann Oakley Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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