World Quotes
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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
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To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of non-understanding, was impossible.
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
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From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.
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I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
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Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.
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Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.
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There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
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If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
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People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.
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I just wanted to see the wide world.
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I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
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In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut each others throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing a modus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.
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We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world is one. Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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Shoes define how you walk in the world and how you stand: like, what is your posture in life?
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Veterans have the skills employers want - discipline, motivation, leadership, and the ability to work on a team. They have made the U.S. military the most effective and respected in the world.
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The world is large, very large. My head is small, quite small. There is no way I can put the world in my head. Nevertheless, I have been trying to elaborate some kind of representation.
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A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
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I'm a tour bus driver, and everywhere you go there's something describing the world's biggest whatever. I think this will be perfect for Bardstown.
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Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.
