Quotes with world-opposed

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  • Bertolt Brecht For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Abraham Cowley For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ana Castillo For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
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  • Caitlin Doughty For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Audre Lorde For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Albert Einstein Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Fortune and humor govern the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Arthur Henderson Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Helen Rowland France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Lewis Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that this present might be the world's last night; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Kenneth Branagh Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
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  • Woodrow Wilson Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Friendship with our self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • E. Roosevelt Friendship with ourself is all-important, because without it one cannot he friends with anyone else in the world.
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  • St. Francis de Sales Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Brad Holland Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Antoine Rivarol Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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