Quotes with world-view

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 3096.

  • Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Bryan Magee The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • John F. Kennedy The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible of a final military solution.
    Source: Westpoint, 06-06-1962
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Stephen King The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Bill Gates The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • George Eliot The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jonathan Swift The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Wendell Phillips The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Algernon Sydney The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Brene Brown The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best reformers the world has ever seen
    are those who commence on themselves.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Michael Korda The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Adam Clayton Powell The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer - he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Germaine Greer The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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