World Quotes
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There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.
Socrates
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
Yo-Yo Ma
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
Edith Hamilton
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I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you're in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, "What will I do between now and then?" Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform - your contribution to the world.
Bette Midler
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
Ben Harper
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
Ed Miliband
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
Samuel Barnett
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Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
Friedrich Schiller
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I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
Kesha
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The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
Pierre de Coubertin
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I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.
Katie Taylor
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
H. P. Lovecraft
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It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!
Mark Rydell
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I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.
Charles Kennedy
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
Manmohan Singh
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In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can.
Chanda Kochhar
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If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
Ian Botham
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells
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Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us many glorious moments.
Mary Pilon