Quotes with world-transforming

Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 2916.

  • Alexander Graham Bell The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Adam Schiff The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously - and have somebody find out.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Susan B. Anthony The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • William Butler Yeats The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • John Locke The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
    Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman (1974) door Merle Miller
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Allen Ginsberg The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • John Haggai The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
    John Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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  • Miguel de Unamuno The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Malcolm X The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba - yes Cuba too.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Vilanch The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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