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  • Henry David Thoreau In wildness is the preservation of the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carol Bellamy In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • C. L. R. James In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Baba Kalyani India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • William James Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Günter Grass Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Graham Greene Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Carol Bellamy Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Integrity of the individual is what we're being judged for and if we are not passing that examination, we don't really have the guts, we'll blow ourselves up. It will be all over. I think it's all the difference in the world.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Susan Sontag Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Arthur Machen Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bill Flores Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America's most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, 'Death to America.' If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Thomas Traherne Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Asa Gray Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Quentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Angela Carter Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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