Quotes with out-of-this-world

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  • Ban Ki-moon This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
    Speech at Bali climate change conference (2007)
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • T. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bobby Bonilla This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Bob Dylan This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • John Steinbeck This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Oscar Wilde This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Beth Broderick This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
    NY Times 2-11-2001 Yes, This Is About Islam
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield This poem may have meant nothing to you but I am confident that tonight my taking the time to actually write out my anger instead of acting on it has saved the life of at least eleven people in parking enforcement.
    Poetry Flare Guns and Earthquakes
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Austan Goolsbee This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Horace This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Horace Walpole This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Carly Fiorina This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
    The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Doris Lessing This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Amelia E. Barr This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Barnett Newman This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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