Famous World Quotes Part – 23

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We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.

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We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it.

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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

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We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

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

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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

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Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

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Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

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What is it [the world], in fact? A glass which shines, which a breath can destroy, and which a breath has produced. [Fr., Quel est-il en effet? C’est un verre qui luit. Qu’un souffle peut detruitre, et qu’un souffle a produit.]

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What is the world to him now? a vast and vacant space, for fortune’s wheel to roll about at will. [Ger., Was ist ihm nun die Welt? ein weiter leerer Raum, Fortunen’s Spielraum, frei ihr Rad herum zu rollen.]

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What is this world?–A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses; In common use no more it means, we find, Than many fools in same opinions joined.

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Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

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When the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

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When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.

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When the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.


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