Quotes with old-world

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  • Margaret Mitchell Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Bryant Gumbel Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Carol Loomis Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Brooke Burke Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Albert J. Nock Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Robert Baden-Powell Leave this world a little better than you found it.
    Source: Last Message to Scouts (1941)
    Robert Baden-Powell
    British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Socrates Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Ferdinand I Let justice be done, though the world perish.
    Original: Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
    Source: Latin
    Ferdinand I
    Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1503 - 1564)
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  • Walt Whitman Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Karl Marx Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Fanny Brice Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
    Fanny Brice
    American comedienne and singer (1891 - 1951)
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