World Quotes
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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume
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Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
Rachel Carson
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Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.
Kristin Hersh
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Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.
Christy Turlington
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
Said Nursi
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
Wallace Stevens
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
Aidan Chambers
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There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
Bette Midler
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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
Abby Wambach
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If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth
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We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
Katherine Dunn
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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
Walton Goggins
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The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
F. H. Bradley
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
Mackenzie Davis
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I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.
Gail Sheehy
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
Zac Goldsmith
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell
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It's a world where you're going to have a phone, a tablet, a computer - you don't have to choose. And so what's more important is how you seamlessly move between them all... It's not like this is a laptop person and that's a tablet person. It doesn't have to be that way.
Phil Schiller
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
Karl Rove