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- I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the…
- Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
- We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world,…
- In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity…
- I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of…
- It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely…
- A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
- Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the…
- No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.
- Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a…
- The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show…
- The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to…
- The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
- The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
- All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
- The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
- Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be…
- The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and…
- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to…
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- Being a honest n nice person is most difficult thing in this world. As nobody likes the company of a person that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Only two Persons In The World Can Tell The Truth About you , . 1) A Dear one Who Is Angry On… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle