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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Horace Walpole Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bob Newhart All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Alice Walker All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Joaquin Miller All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
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  • Gore Vidal All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Plutarch All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Anna Jameson All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Lenny Bruce All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Carl Hiaasen All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Buddy Holly All of my love - all of my kissin' You don't know what you've been a-missin' Oh boy - when you're with me - oh boy The world will see that you were meant for me
    Source: The Chirping Crickets (1957)
    Buddy Holly
     
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  • Carl Sagan All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alexander Maclaren All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Patrick McCabe All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.
    Patrick McCabe
    Irish writer (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Bruce Cockburn All the diamonds in this world
    That mean anything to me
    Are conjured up
    by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea
    I ran aground in a harbor town
    Lost the taste for being free
    Thank God he sent some gull chased ship
    To carry me to sea...
    Source: Salt,Sun and Time (1974) All the Diamonds in the World, Track 1
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bill Maris All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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