Quotes with world-opposed

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  • Bertrand Russell Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Barry Humphries Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen* never let any of them live rent-free in his brain.
    My Life as Me: A Memoir
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Boris Pasternak Am I a gangster or a murderer?
    Of what crime do I stand
    Condemned? I made the whole world weep
    At the beauty of my land.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bill Frist America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Adam Schiff America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Nicholas Butler America is the best half-educated country in the world.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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  • G.W.F. Hegel America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Benazir Bhutto America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • John McCain America's image throughout the world is very bad.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Philip James Bailey America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Harold Rosenberg American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Ben Marcus Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • William Dean Howells An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • John Updike An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
    Management Science Journal, October 1960
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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