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  • Donald H. Mcgannon The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Source: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benjamin Graham The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
    Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. I, The Problem of Raw Materials, p. 5
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Charles F. Kettering The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Albert Camus The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Albert Einstein The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • W. M. Thackeray The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Peter Ackroyd The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Horace The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aldous Huxley The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alcee Hastings The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Barry Diller The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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