World Quotes
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves. We do not think you can do it by national defence. We think you can only do it by moving forward to a new world – a world of law, the abolition of national armaments with a world force and a world economic system. I shall be told that that is quite impossible.
Clement Attlee
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
Christiaan Barnard
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...our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
Randall Jarrell
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Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,
And so am come abroad to see the world.
William Shakespeare
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What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.
Christopher Shays
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I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective... I wanna learn and I wanna listen.
Angelina Jolie
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There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
Jacopo Sannazaro
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If the Communists conquered the world, it would be very unpleasant for a while, but not forever. But if the human race is wiped out, that is the end.
Bertrand Russell
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The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world - and to pay attention to man.
Albert Camus
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There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.
Johann Lamont
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To us, with our broader outlook, our more complicated interests, our more elusive moods, their small bright world is apt to seem uninteresting and out of date, unless we spend some patient sympathy in the discovery of the real charm and the real beauty that it contains.
Lytton Strachey
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I’ll dream up a world where you never existed. A world you could never live in. I’ll live there without you.
Coco J. Ginger
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If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.
Gene Luen Yang
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Just as is happening in many other places in the world now, as there has been a rash of decisions in other countries, either legislative or judicial, validating same-gender marriages, I think that the time will come in Hawaii.
Ed Case
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Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.
David Shapiro
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If you calculate the price of everything in this world, you will miss out on the real important things.5
Lee Hsien Loong
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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins
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