Quotes with world’s

Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 2906.

  • Bruce Jackson The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Audre Lorde The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anatole France The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Big Pun The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
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  • J. B. Priestley The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Bob Newhart The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
    The First World War (1963) p. 20
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Kofi Annan The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Camille Paglia The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • George Borrow The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • David Martyn Lloyd-Jones The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
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  • Breyten Breytenbach The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Martin Luther The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
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  • Bill Walton The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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