Quotes with post-world

Quotes 2941 till 2960 of 2960.

  • Ambrose Bierce The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Elias Canetti The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Robert M. Pirsig The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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  • Charles Dickens The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Denis Diderot The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Bill de Blasio There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Theodor W. Adorno There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
    Theodor W. Adorno
    German philosopher, critic and composer (1903 - 1969)
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  • Britt Daniel There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
    Britt Daniel
    American musician (1971 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
    Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James Meller
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alistair Cooke These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Simone Weil Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • B. F. Skinner You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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