Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
Quotes to Explore
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
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I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.
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Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.
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BRAC originated in the 1960s under President Kennedy as the Department of Defense (DOD) had to realign its base structure after World War II and the Korean War. At that time, the DOD was able to close bases without congressional interference, and 60 bases were closed in the 1960s.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
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I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time I left home at 17 years old.
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
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Someone was always trying to put down my individuality and personality, making me sing Mozart arias that were nothing to do with me.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
