Quotes with world-view

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  • Bernard Levin What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Henry Miller What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Barry Eisler What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bria Skonberg What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Camille Paglia What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barry Commoner What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Leonard Cohen What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lord George Byron What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Abraham Cahan What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Lord George Byron What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Albert Einstein What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Richard Bach What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
    Source: Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Wendell Phillips What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Levant What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Pearl Bailey What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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