Quotes with world

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  • Alan Paton I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • William Penn I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Anish Kapoor I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alejo Carpentier I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Aaron Eckhart I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Robert Frost I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Assata Shakur I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Umberto Eco I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 104
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Salvador Dali I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Lord George Byron I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world - not much remembered when the ball is over.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Sir Thomas Beecham I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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