Quotes with world-opposed

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 2954.

  • Arthur C. Clarke The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Mark Van Doren The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • Douglas Engelbart The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
    Intelligence in the Internet Age, New York Times 19-9-2005
    Douglas Engelbart
    American engineer and inventor (1925 - 2013)
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  • Billy Campbell The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Erich Fromm The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Leonard Cohen The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • Edgar Quinet The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Allen Klein The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Armstrong Williams The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Clive James The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Edgar W. Howe The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Eric Hoffer The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Keith The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Bill Cosby The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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