World Quotes
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It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.
Gemma Ward
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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
Lao Tzu
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I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
Max Baucus
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It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.
Marianne Williamson
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Nelson wonders why, no matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong – you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.
John Updike
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The world is one big data problem.
Andrew McAfee
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Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.
Anthony Robbins
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I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
Thomas Hobbes
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The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.
Meher Baba
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To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.
R. A. Torrey
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The world is full of paper, write to me.
Agha Shahid Ali
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
Sacagawea
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One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.
Jonathan Franzen
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As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I am confronted every day with the security concerns and threats to our own nation's safety, as well as threats to the rest of the world.
John McCain
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I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
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Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a – waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold – cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
William Morris
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Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Jesus didn’t come just to tweak things, but to overthrow the kingdom of this world. We are slow to learn and need more stories to help us catch God’s kingdom vision and even to help us make sense of the example Jesus sets for us.
Carolyn Custis James
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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Peter Lynch
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Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.
Li Shufu
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I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
John Crowley
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Bollywood is a strange world.
Cyrus Broacha
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Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.
Katharine Viner
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It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.
Lauren Beukes