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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Kofi Annan We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
    Source: Faceboek (2017)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • John Locke We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
    Source: Psychological types: or, The psychology of individuation (1926)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Carlos Gershenson We shouldn't see ourselves as 'controllers' of the world, but as 'actors' in the world.
    Source: Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • John Lennon We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bobby Wallace We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.
    Bobby Wallace
     
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  • Gloria Steinem We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Dan Quayle We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Clinton We're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Assata Shakur We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • George Eliot Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William C. Bryant Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Barbara Bush Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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