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  • Henry L. Doherty Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Bertrand Russell Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Nathalie Sarraute Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
    Nathalie Sarraute
    French writer (1900 - 1999)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bertrand Russell Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Boris Yeltsin Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Isak Dineson Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
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  • Blaise Pascal Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Conrad To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Abraham Cowley To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
    Of Agriculture.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Shakespeare To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
    Hamlet 2,2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Butch Trucks To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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