Quotes with world-view

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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • A. N. Wilson Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bernhard von Bulow Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Hendrik Willem Van Loon The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Harold Pinter The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Leo Buscaglia The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Joseph Addison The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Roy L. Smith The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Hazlitt The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Bill Bryson The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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