Cecil Rhodes Quotes
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.Cecil Rhodes
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
Lajos Kossuth -
In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
Naomi Campbell -
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley -
My mother taught me to read.
Fiona Shaw -
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
Kate Adie -
The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
Wayne Dyer
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
L'Wren Scott -
I tend to read non-fiction.
Gary Oldman -
I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
Wayne Coyne -
I often don't read reviews.
Ian Mcewan -
The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.
Vincent Bugliosi -
'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling -
Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.
Said Nursi -
We seem to be able to be fully comfortable only when the remainder of humanity can be labeled as members versus nonmembers.
E. O. Wilson -
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
Alfred North Whitehead -
But in my homeboys' high school, it's not like that. They don't have trips to go see this Broadway play, they don't read things we read. They didn't know when I was like: 'Yo, Shakespeare's dope.'
Tupac Shakur -
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
Elie Wiesel
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What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
Jeremy Rifkin -
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
Pablo Casals -
I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.
Cressida Bonas -
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
Marina Warner -
Be careful who you share your weakness with. Some people can't wait for the opportunity to use them against you.
Patrick Henry -
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
Cecil Rhodes