Quotes with world’s

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  • Margaret Mead Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • David Letterman New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Boris Pasternak No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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  • Thomas Carlyle No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Milan Kundera No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Bernard Mandeville No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Ruth Benedict No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Channing Pollock No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Alan Alda No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Robin Williams No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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