Quotes with world-transforming

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  • Malcolm X A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Joyce Carey A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Bill Hader A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Walter Winchell A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
    Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator (1897 - 1972)
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  • Bill Owens A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Joseph Hall A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
    Joseph Hall
    English bishop and satirist (1574 - 1656)
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  • John Gay A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Joan Didion A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
    The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 192
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Leo Buscaglia A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • George Washington A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Mary McCarthy A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • John Locke A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Carl Sagan A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alexander the Great A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do - namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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