Quotes with world-opposed

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  • Aldous Huxley The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Hendrik Willem Van Loon The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Harold Pinter The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Leo Buscaglia The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Joseph Addison The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Roy L. Smith The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Hazlitt The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Bill Bryson The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Gaston Bachelard The words of the world want to make sentences.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Booker T. Washington The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
    Speech in Boston, 30-7-1903
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Napoleon Hill The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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