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When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself,am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

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Best Quotes about World

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Dylan, Bob

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

Macleish, Archibald

He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

Dunne, Finley Peter

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Bush, George

It doesn't matter much what happens in this world, there's going to be somebody who'll tell you that he knew it would.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Rossetti, Christina

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The world gels better every day -- then worse again in the evening.

Hubbard, Kin

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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Evarts, William M.

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Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party.

Silver, Samuel M

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The world does owe you a living, but it doesn't home deliver.

Saunders

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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

Camus, Albert

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The real world is not user-friendly

Throop III, Kelvin

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I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.

Devi, Sri Sarada

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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Pythagoras

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I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singularity, must in the eyes of some have appeared to border on the marvelous. But in the forests of South America such extraordinary realities are to be found, that there is assuredly no need to have recourse to fiction or the least exaggeration.

Stedman, Captain J. G.

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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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God had created the world in play.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

Vizinczey, Stephen

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Arendt, Hannah

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The world is in your hands, now use it.

Collins, Phil

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The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

Fields, W. C.

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People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!

Cleaver, Beaver

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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

Kennedy, John F.

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If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

Traubel, Horace

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If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

Brown, Rita Mae

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The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Fulghum, Robert

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To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

Daly, Mary

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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

Walpole, Horace

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When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself,am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

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We can only change the world by changing men.

Wells, Charles

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The earth is the Lord s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. [Psalms 24:1]

Bible

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Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Luther, Martin

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Sexton, Anne

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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

Einstein, Albert

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

Miller, Henry

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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Armour, Richard

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We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Reagan, Ronald

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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

Tuchman, Barbara

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The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Arendt, Hannah