Amelia B. Edwards Quotes

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

Amelia B. Edwards

Amelia B. Edwards

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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

Barack Obama
- World
- America
- Failure
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

Salman Rushdie
- Life
- Time
- World
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde
- World
- Books
- Shame
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi
- World
- Doing
- Problems
Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

Larry Ellison
- Time
- World
- Now
Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.

Mahershala Ali
- People
- World
- Appreciate