World Quotes
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We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
Terence McKenna
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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
George Bernard Shaw
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I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
Ryan Gosling
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We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
Carl von Ossietzky
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The world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it’s a lord without mercy.
Sigrid Undset
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When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.
Steve Earle
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It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.
Sarah Paulson
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I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
Michel Onfray
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Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.
Michael Behe
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He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.
Isaac Watts
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Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.
Hillary Clinton
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I think the internet is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
Bill Gates
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The spring is fresh and fearless And every leaf is new, The world is brimmed with moonlight, The lilac brimmed with dew. Here in the moving shadows I catch my breath and sing - My heart is fresh and fearless And over-brimmed with spring.
Sara Teasdale
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The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.
Paul Polman
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The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.
William T. Wiley
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In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
Mariah Carey
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I'm going to take over the world. Everyone watch out, you're in big trouble.
Howard Stern
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There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
George R. R. Martin
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Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.
Simon Sinek
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The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.
Harry S Truman
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Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!
George Moses Horton
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You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.
Caroline Myss
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All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.
Sarah Dessen
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If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.
George Sarton