Quotes with world

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  • Bonnie Bedelia If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Winston Churchill If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Heinrich Heine If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Kofi Annan If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Ben Shapiro If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Andrew Grove If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Rita Mae Brown If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • William Hazlitt If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Paul Auster If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.
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    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Dave Thomas If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
    Dave Thomas
    American businessman and philanthropist (1917 - 1991)
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  • Samuel Butler If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Gail Godwin If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Josh Billings If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Rita Mae Brown If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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