Quotes 2081 till 2100 of 3128.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously - and have somebody find out.
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The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
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The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
Source: Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman (1974) door Merle Miller -
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
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The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba - yes Cuba too.
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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.
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The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
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