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If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the worl...

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Jim RogersA Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundre...

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Jim RogersA Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...

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We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that'...

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Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen throug...

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this o...

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."-Jimi Hendrix

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the ...

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The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means ...

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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all hu...

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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to ...

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Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the...

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I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible gov...

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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the...

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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, th...

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If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might ...

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You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in ...

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Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing w...

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We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declarin...

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The world is not made of bread and honey…nor of the sweet flesh of girls. This world is made of clou...

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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration ...

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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of cle...

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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John DonneThe Poems of John Donne; Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great i...

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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...

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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and ...

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition;...

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I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It ...

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Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for hu...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to ...

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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination...

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There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I ...

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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs ...

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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recov...

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Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the...

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The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the wor...

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The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and grea...

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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. T...

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I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world ...

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In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best custom...

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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...

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and re...

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should reme...

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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are ...

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power amon...

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the peop...

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I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the trut...

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The most important thing in the world is family and love.

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, t...

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I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing wha...

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I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and c...

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We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in ha...

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One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each sol...

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Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they cham...

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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Ac...

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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to techn...

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There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and ...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

There was all the world and his wife.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, ...

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Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and ...

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You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...

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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...

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Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone befo...

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, wa...

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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It...

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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole ...

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