World Quotes
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I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.
Chuck Connors
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All that you are attached to, all that you love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal, the known is unreal and will come and go so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging, the Truth.
H. W. L. Poonja
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The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.
Uche Okafor
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I kept trying to stress that - 'Hang on, we're be-bop guys, we're down in the alley on 57th Street. We're not in there with John Reed and 'Ten Days That Shook the World.' We'd be in the alley with (Charlie) Parker shooting up junk. That's where we were at really.
Joe Strummer
The Clash
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Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong and brave, my noble King, protecting life and fame Together. My sword will fight at your side!
Burton Raffel
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On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.
John F. Tierney
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I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors.
Franklin Foer
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Worrying won’t help it turn up any sooner. And look!” continued the giant. “If you waste your time worrying, how will you have a moment to see how beautiful the world is?
Cressida Cowell
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I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
Lee Daniels
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I would that there was nothing in the world
But my beloved that night and day had perished,
And all that is and all that is to be,
All that is not the meeting of our lips.
William Butler Yeats
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If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.
Marco Polo
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The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
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Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.
Ben Schott
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
James F. Cooper
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
Francois Rabelais
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It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.
John Nelson Darby
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I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.
Pele
