Quotes with world-opposed

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  • Richard Nixon This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Ban Ki-moon This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
    Speech at Bali climate change conference (2007)
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Beau Willimon This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bobby Bonilla This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Bob Dylan This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
    NY Times 2-11-2001 Yes, This Is About Islam
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Horace This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Horace Walpole This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Carly Fiorina This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
    The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Doris Lessing This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Amelia E. Barr This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Barnett Newman This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Earl Wilson This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Bode Miller This year I just want to enjoy myself. I could give up tomorrow without having the slightest regret. I could keep away from this world for a year and then perhaps start to feel the desire to prove something to myself again.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Henderson Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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