Quotes with world-transforming

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  • Aldous Huxley Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • James Thurber Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • John Donne Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • André Malraux Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Albert Einstein Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Robert A. Cook Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
    Robert A. Cook
    American Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor (1912 - 1991)
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  • Caitriona Balfe Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Huntington Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 197
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Bertrand Russell Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bell Hooks Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Gore Vidal Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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