World Quotes
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When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.
Rick Perry
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.
Virginia Postrel
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Every organization of our government, the best government in the world, is crumbling to pieces. Those who have it in their hands are the ones who are destroying it. How long will it be before the words of the prophet Joseph will be fulfilled? He said if the Constitution of the United States were saved at all it must be done by this people. It will not be many years before these words come to pass.
Brigham Young
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It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.
Sufjan Stevens
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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul Dirac
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Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.
William Cowper
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Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.
Seth Lloyd
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
Viola Davis
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Phillips Brooks
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Money alone sets all the world in motion.
Publilius Syrus
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I'd say most of the rest of the world are bigger Beatles fans than me. They'd know more of the songs and more of the lyrics - I don't really know that stuff. I just respect them.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala
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I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.
Azzedine Alaia
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The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is an oftentimes dangerous world and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.
Mike Medavoy
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I never want to impose my will on a community because even though I am the director of the movie, I can't direct them to be any more like themselves than they are. So it's very helpful to me because I can see the truth of their lives and their world right in front of me.
Nikola Jean Caro
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I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been.
Tyson Fury
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My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.
David Edelstein
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Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.
Lao Tzu
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I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.
Ben Okri
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Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.
Horace Greeley
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In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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You know something, man? Some day I'm gonna be walking up the street one way and you're gonna be coming down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.
Chick Webb
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And the world on a string doesn't mean a thing.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.
Ken Robinson