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  • William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bob Barr The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Billy Sunday The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Henry Miller The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Henry Miller The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Hazlitt The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Bill Clinton The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
    at Rosa Parks funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Richard Cecil The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The world loves a spice of wickedness.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Barbara Walters The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Andy Rooney The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The world must be made safe for democracy.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • William Shakespeare The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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