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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Kofi Annan If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Ben Shapiro If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Andrew Grove If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Rita Mae Brown If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • William Hazlitt If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Paul Auster If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.
    Source: Moon Palace (2010) 111
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Dave Thomas If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
    Dave Thomas
    American businessman and philanthropist (1917 - 1991)
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  • Samuel Butler If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Gail Godwin If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Josh Billings If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Rita Mae Brown If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn If this were the last night of the world
    What would I do
    What would I do that was different
    Unless it was champagne with you...
    Source: Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (1999)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • David Hockney If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
    David Hockney
    English painter and printmaker (1937 - )
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  • Byron Howard If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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