World Quotes
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Public influence is the real government of the world.
Josiah Warren
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I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.
Teju Cole
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We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
Ray Bradbury
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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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I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.
Estelle
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Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
Thomas Harris
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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
Ray Bradbury
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Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.
Eudora Welty
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From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while.
Sarah Dessen
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[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
Whoopi Goldberg
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World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will
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The body and the soul know how to play.
In that dark world where gods have lost their way.
Theodore Roethke
