World Quotes
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
Walter Lang
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May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. There he is now crossing the strands, and that the Lord God would send a high wave to wash him from the world.
John Millington Synge
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
Barton Gellman
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And a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
Octavia Spencer
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski
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The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.
Jason Fried
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Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'
Peter Blair Henry
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I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in.
Karen Allen
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
Adam Grant
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
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White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street:Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
Edith Sitwell
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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
Pope Francis
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prejean, who got cosmetic surgery before the pageant, just spoke of 'how women can make a difference in the world.' Absolutely revolting.
David Shuster
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
Edmund Leach
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It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street.
Leslie Cockburn
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
Vanessa Carlton
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I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.
Big Sean
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We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
Jeff Tweedy
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The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
Friedrich Schiller
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As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.
Wendy Kopp
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
Kate Forsyth