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Quotes 2041 till 2060 of 3128.

  • Gerald Early The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Barry Commoner The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Albert Camus The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Barbara Ward The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay, and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Ian McEwan The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Christopher Fry The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate.
    Christopher Fry
    English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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  • Bernard Pivot The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Paul Klee The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Jane Austen The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Jane Austen The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Confucius The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Arthur Henderson The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Cate Blanchett The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bill Nye The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • R.S. Hichens The most beautiful sound in the world is silence.
    R.S. Hichens
     
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  • Ernest Bevin The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
    Ernest Bevin
     
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  • Bill Klem The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • David Lloyd George The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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