Quotes with world-opposed

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  • Eleanor Roosevelt A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do - namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Buddha A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Oscar Wilde A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
    The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Cohen A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
    The Question of Imperialism
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough A world where nothing is had for nothing.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Bill Bryson A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Berthold Auerbach A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Angela Merkel Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Camille Paglia Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 94
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Barry Sanders According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Billy Sunday After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Ben Stein After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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