Quotes with world-opposed

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  • Umberto Eco We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 120
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Stephen Hawking We live in a bewildering world.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Anish Kapoor We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Erich Fromm We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Susan Sontag We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • C. S. Lewis We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
    The Weight of Glory (1949)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Aaron Siskind We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
    Aaron Siskind: photographs, 1932-1978 (1979 edition)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • William E. Gladstone We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • William Gladstone We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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  • Carl Sagan We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
    Cosmos (1980) 217
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Herman Melville We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Harry S. Truman We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • A. Philip Randolph We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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