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World Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
- I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment…
- Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
- The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and…
- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
- Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
- Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
- It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
- Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot…
- [Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of…
- [Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily…
- the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to…
- I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
- Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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- 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
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
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