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  • Richard Cecil Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • John H. Aughey Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
    John H. Aughey
    American clergyman and writer (1828 - 1911)
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  • Bill Frist September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Jonathan Franzen Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.
    (2012)
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Marlene Dietrich Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Karl Kraus Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Christie Brinkley Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.
    Christie Brinkley
    American model and actress (1954 - )
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  • Emily Brontë She burned too bright for this world.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bruce Cockburn Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bill Gates Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Lord George Byron Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Immanuel Kant So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Anna Louise Strong So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Andrew Grove So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Antoine Fuqua So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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