World Quotes
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There was this book I read and loved,The story of a shipWho sailed around the world and foundThat nothing else existsBeyond its own two sailsAnd wooden shellAnd what is held within.All else is sure to pass.We clutch and graspAnd debate what's truly permanent.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.
Pico Iyer
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God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.
Mother Teresa
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Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
Jon Bon Jovi
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen
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Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.
Savitri Devi
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He wanted to be angry, his mission was was to be angry, and he had nothing to be angry about; the world would not let him rave, this was the great injustice he suffered from.
Christina Stead
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People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.
William Foege
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
Miguel de Cervantes
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That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just want—
Sarah Dessen
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There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Charles Dudley Warner
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There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad and indifferent.
Ninette de Valois
