Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2954.
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The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
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The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
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The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
Striking Thoughts (2000) -
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
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The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
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The men who learn endurance are those who call the whole world brother.
Barnaby Rudge -
The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.
Political Theology (1922) -
The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay, and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.
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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate.
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The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
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