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“Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.”

People World Looks Generations Goes On Profession Architecture Vacation Better Place Idealistic

Author:Frank Gehry

“A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.”

Ifs World Found Consciousness Happened Window England Library Things Happen Curious Elsewhere Better Place True Life Terrain

Author:Garry Disher

“There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.”

World War Eternal Better Place

Book:Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva

Source: Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva

“I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.”

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Author:Susan Hockfield

“If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place.”

Ifs World Firsts Persons Steps Praying First Steps Better Place True Friend

Author:Nick Vujicic

“We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.”

World Sides Walks Responsibility Accepting Injustice Our World Better Place

Author:Ed Miliband

“Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.”

Littles War Earth Planets Disease Cancer Aids Nuclear Pollution Better Place Plague Missiles Planet Earth Places To Live Cancer Survivor Nuclear Missiles Stop War

Author:Uri Geller

“I'm always confused when people say how much they miss 'Invader Zim' because the show never stopped running in my head, and then I remember everyone else isn't in my head. I try to imagine the world for all those people who don’t know what Zim's been up to since the show went off the air and it makes me shudder. How can people live that way? Hopefully this comic helps make the world a better place.”

People Knows World Way Trying Helping Shows Running Remember Imagine Air Missing Hopefully Comic Confused Better Place Invaders

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.”

“That's what keeps me going. Everywhere I go there are young people with shining eyes wanting to tell me, "Dr. Jane, we're going to make the world a better place."”

People World Eye Young Shining Drs Better Place Jane Shining Eyes

Author:Jane Goodall

“Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.”

People Book Real Today Views Numbers Practice Theory Training Mathematics Prepared Active Contemporary Mathematical Apology Autobiography Sociology Better Place Inquiry Invitations Patches

Author:Peter Galison

“I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.”

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Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong

“This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.”

“I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will ever know peace. Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place.”

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Author:Shirley Temple

“I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.”

Men World Trying Littles Helping Fellows Better Place Fellow Man

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place.”

“I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.”

World I Can Two Hands My Own Changing The World Better Place Kinder Two Hands

Author:Ben Harper

“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.”

Ifs Way Natural Written Example Students Seasons England Fruit Companion Apology Pale Desks Better Place Scholarship Rifles New England Saddles Oar

Book:Letters of Francis Parkman

Source: Letters of Francis Parkman

“Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.”

World Self Culture This World Discipline Blessed Excellence Leaving Dues Dedication Quests Self Discipline Better Place

Author:Nonie Darwish

“If you look good, are in good health, and feel good about yourself, then you'll be more productive at work, you will be happier in your relationships with your friends and your family, and consequently, you will be a more productive, contributing member of society, making the world a better place for all. And, it all starts by working on yourself.”

Ifs World Feels Looks Members Feel Good Our Family Productive About Yourself Our Relationship Better Place Good Health Contributing Working On Yourself

Author:Lee Labrada

“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.”

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Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

“The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.”

World Believe Millions Atheism Crap Better Place Evaporation

Author:Andrei Codrescu

“It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.”

“In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.”

World Want Should Years Together Hundred Better Place Get Together

Author:Liya Kebede

“When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.”

British Weather Better Place Countryside

Author:Ross Kemp

“If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.”

Ifs World Wells Reason Feelings Would Be Decision Better Place Places To Live

Author:Susan Polis Schutz

“My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.”

People World Trying Parent Strange Better Place

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.”

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair.”

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Author:Joan D. Chittister

“If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.”

Ifs Thinking World Together Moving Possibility Species Better Place

Author:Dave Sitek

“It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.”

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Author:Leonard Nimoy

“I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.”

World Wanted Feminist Teenager Better Place

Author:Anna Quindlen

“If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.”

Ifs Thinking World Littles Bits Little Bit Better Place

Author:Tracy Morgan

“Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.”

“I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place.”

Ifs Thinking Culture Pops Better Place Pop Culture

Author:Cote de Pablo

“Today at least I live in a better place”

Today Better Place

Author:Sidharth Malhotra

“A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?”

World Children Persons Legacy Better Place Good Person

Author:Alexis Stewart

“And I strongly support the faith-based initiative that we're proposing, because I don't believe it violates the line between the separation of church and state, and I believe it's going to make America a better place.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.”

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Author:Jeff Cooper

“But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place-the way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart-like Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl's outward appearance, and into her soul-like Andrew.”

Source: Queen of Babble Bundle with Bonus Material

“People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.”

People World Today Economist Better Place

Author:Tim Harford

“Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.”

World Community Focus Generations Humility Citizens Approach Empathy Everyday Committed Better Place Kate Ambassadors Global Citizen Refreshing Positive Change Humility And Patience

Author:Ann Veneman

“I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.”

Ifs Thinking World Writing Stories Would Be Childhood Better Place Funny Story

Author:Jeff Kinney

“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.”

“I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.”

Thinking Years Made Four Huge Years Ago Four Years Better Place Thunder Positive Change

Author:Keith Hobbs

“The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.”

World Trying Heart I Can Action Justice Planets Draws Calm Scared Better Place Comforting Our Planet Living Things Love And Respect Small Actions

Author:Q'orianka Kilcher

“I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.”

Ifs World Would Be Drug Doctors Agree Better Place Enthusiastic Adopting

Author:Ben Goldacre

“Jim Rohn is the master motivator - he has style, substance, charisma, relevance, charm, and what he says makes a difference and it sticks. I consider Jim the 'Chairman of Speakers.' The world would be a better place if everyone heard my friend, Jim Rohn.”

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Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.”

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Author:Nancy Lublin

“I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to the belief that we would all be in a much better place if half the human race (women) were empowered to prosper, invent, be educated, start their own businesses, run for office essentially be given the chance to soar.”

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