Quotes with world-pattern-trend

Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2954.

  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Nicholas Butler The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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  • Thomas Carlyle The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    A Woman of No Importance Act 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Alan Cranston The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Carl Sagan The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
    Essay as Mr. X (1969)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham The importance of anything in the world is precisely the importance which we attach to it ourselves.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • George Eliot The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Booker T. Washington The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Arthur Erickson The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Carl Levin The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • 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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