Quotes 2161 till 2180 of 3019.
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The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
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The world has always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
Source: 2008 Democratic National Convention, August 27, 2008 -
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
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The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
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The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
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The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
Source: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864 -
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. I, The Problem of Raw Materials, p. 5 -
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
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The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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