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  • Ian McEwan The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Christopher Fry The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate.
    Christopher Fry
    English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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  • Bernard Pivot The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Paul Klee The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Jane Austen The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Jane Austen The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Confucius The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Arthur Henderson The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Cate Blanchett The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bill Nye The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • R.S. Hichens The most beautiful sound in the world is silence.
    R.S. Hichens
     
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  • Ernest Bevin The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
    Ernest Bevin
     
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  • Bill Klem The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • David Lloyd George The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Alice Walker The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • John Wooden The most important thing in the world is family and love.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Brandan Behan The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
    Brandan Behan
     
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  • A. E. Housman The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
    Source: Referring to Luke 17:33, Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it (the wording used by Housman).
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Albert Einstein The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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