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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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.

Viggo Mortensen
- People
- World
- Family
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.

Barack Obama
- World
- Justice
- Peaceful
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.

Naomi Klein
- World
- Why
- Growth
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Omar N. Bradley
- World
- Man
- Humanity
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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.

Paolo Bacigalupi
- World
- Writing
- Girl
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

Naftali Bennett
- World
- Freedom
- Perfect