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“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.”

Thinking World Years Firsts Memories Design Painting Needed Skills Concepts Paint Details Driven Around The World Rely Technical Skills

Author:Milford Zornes

“If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.”

Ifs World Mind Firsts Individual Making Peace

Author:S. N. Goenka

“I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time.”

World Firsts Might Difficult Wife Seeing Brother My Wife Grieving My Brother Mourning Touched Allowing Difficult Times Tribute Everly Brothers

Author:Don Everly

“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

“The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Enough Today Evil Literature Causes Millions Progress Serious Ears Block Revolutionary Subtle Good Enough Sincere Improving Essays Not Good Enough Scepticism

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Records New World World Records

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.”

World Years Firsts States Political Three Economy Becoming Hundred Concepts First Time Sovereign Sovereignty Divorced Political Systems

Author:Peter Drucker

“We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.”

World Should Mind Firsts Humans Two Might Strange Comfort Remains Features Fascinating Our World Human Mind Bizarre Arcane

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.”

World Firsts Two Important Done Literature Moral Democracy Policy Important Things Affair International Clarity Links Globes World Affairs

Author:Natan Sharansky

“Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.”

World Firsts Creation Judging Mass Operations Cunning Cradle

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

“Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.”

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Book:The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings

Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings

“God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening epilogue and thy morning prologue; practice to make him thy last thought at night when thou sleepest, and thy first thought in the morning when thou awakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and thy understanding rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful, thy labors prosperous, thy life pious, and thy death glorious.”

Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

“In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.”

World Firsts Wells Stories Life Is Strange Creating Complexes Familiar Imaginary Believable Milieu Imaginary World

Book:How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

Source: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

“The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.”

World Firsts May I Can Feelings Lasts Remember Praying Degrees Glory Stranger Thread Consistency I Pray Homo Sapiens Desolation

Book:The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

“[My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on which nothing was known: that the question, "Who made me?" cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only throws the difficulty a step further back, since the question immediately presents itself, "Who made God?”

World Firsts Made Father Answers Existence Known Steps Subjects Information Difficulty Impressed

Book:Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?”

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