Quotes with world-transforming

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  • Camille Paglia The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • George Borrow The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • David Martyn Lloyd-Jones The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
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  • Breyten Breytenbach The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Martin Luther The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
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  • Bill Walton The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Bono The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Bruce Feirstein The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • O. S. Hawkins The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
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  • Frederick the Great The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Michael Jackson The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
    Michael Jackson
    American singer, dancer and composer (1958 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Alexander Pope The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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