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“It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State, - ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios, - burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.”

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Author:Lord Acton

“What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.”

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Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.”

World Long Has Beens Art Facts Results Objects Materials Involved Long Time Destruction Productions Odd Cycles Our World Consumption Rejected Junk Pseudo Flooding Contemporary Art

Author:Arman

“You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world there are those who long to see your human goodness translated into a different, more compassionate way of relating with the rest of this bleeding planet.”

People World Way Humans Long Different Helping Planets Goodness Institutions Around The World Compassionate Good People Bleeding Sinning

Author:Peter Storey

“I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.”

World Want Long Character Stories Literature Given Ability Chains Agents Host Publishers Librarian Booksellers

Author:Karl Marlantes

“Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.”

“I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.”

World Long Levels Common Planets Abuse Pot Hook Vulgar Cant Astrology

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.”

“Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!”

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Author:Malcolm X

“As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.”

World Firsts Humans Long Earth Land Moon Safe Creatures Intelligent Corners Legacy Cosmos Living Creatures Intelligent Life

Author:Hugh Downs

“I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.”

World Feels Long Made Used Wonder Used To Be Granted Mortality Fragile Fearful Taking Things For Granted

Author:Robin Gibb

“Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.”

World Feels Humans Wells Long Sometimes Running Voice Laughing Tears Laughter Human Life Dry

Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.”

World Long Term Magic Sticks Employment Long Term Senior Wizards Prospects Minefields Testers Pogo Sticks

Author:Terry Pratchett

“And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.”

People World Want Long Inspiration Lasts Reading Force Progress Israel Hearing Righteousness Strongest Glowing

Book:Complete Prose Works: Dissent and dogma

Source: Complete Prose Works: Dissent and dogma

“There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.”

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Book:Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary

Source: Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary

“I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it much more highly than any business success if I could contribute to an understanding of the world in which we live or, better yet, if I could help to preserve the economic and political system that has allowed me to flourish as a participant.”

Ifs World Writing Long Book Helping Lasts Political Values Wish Understanding Economic Civilization Preserves If I Could Business Success Participants Political Systems

Author:George Soros

“At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so.”

“Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.”

“Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.”

Source: There's a Country in My Cellar

“The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.”

World Mind Firsts Humans Long Faces Law Existence Steps Conditions Return Ideals Tasks Responsible Patient Calm Recognition First Steps Rule Of Law Human Existence Frame Of Mind

Author:Margaret Mead

“I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.”

Ifs World Humans Long Enough Eye Wish Race Wonder Stupid Suicide Commit Optimistic Lifts Human Race

Book:Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.”

World Want Giving Wells Long Made Two Enough Home Three Trouble Hair Sight Give Me Evening Torment Dressings Caps Washing Curls Save Me Long Hair Brushing Short Hair

Book:Jane Austen's Letters

Source: Jane Austen's Letters

“At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything that many of you graduates are hoping for--except for the money. I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled--all the things that the culture tells you, from preschool on, will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you. I got some stature, the respect of other writers, even a low-grade fame. The culture says these things will save you, as long as you also manage to keep your weight down. But the culture lies.”

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Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: "Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 [and] 1/16 is born." Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 [and] 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.”

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Author:Charles Babbage

“Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.”

Source: Sixty stories

“You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.”

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Author:Martin Amis

“And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.”

World Mind Long Young Turns Scene Green Spread Substance Branches Inner World

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.”

Ifs World Wells Long Stills Play Mother Style Havens Bed Twenties Albums Smoke Girlfriend Pot Twenty One Parking Parking Lot Your Girlfriend

Author:Billy Joel

“The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.”

World Long Force Peace Risk Negative Our World Indivisible

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.”

World Giving Heart Long Whole Light Sun Shining Clouds Whole World Heat Rays Veils Egotism

Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?”

Ifs World Long Light Would Be Dark Blessing Universal Printed Manuscripts

Book:The Works of Thomas Traherne: Inducements to retirednes ; A sober view of Dr Twisses, his considerations ; Seeds of eternity, or, The nature of the soul ; The kingdom of God

Source: The Works of Thomas Traherne: Inducements to retirednes ; A sober view of Dr Twisses, his considerations ; Seeds of eternity, or, The nature of the soul ; The kingdom of God