Quotes with world-transforming

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 2916.

  • Buenaventura Durruti The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Al Sharpton The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Seneca The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Virgil The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 26
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Agnes Repplier The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Billy Boyd The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • George Orwell The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Adrienne Rich The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Aleister Crowley The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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