Quotes with world-pattern-trend

Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 2954.

  • Arthur Schopenhauer Music is the melody whose text is the world.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Ben Harper My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it's recorded.
    The Streets Interview with Ben Harper, cmj.com (June 20, 2006)
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Paine My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • William Lloyd Garrison My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • Bruce Dickinson My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bobby Moynihan My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Alicia Silverstone My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.
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  • Barry Marshall My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch My fellow citizens of the world, we are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.
    Speech to United Nations meeting, 14 June 1946
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Lord George Byron My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Peter Carey My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
    (2004)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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