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“Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.”

World Long Together Past Clothes Endure Buttons Fossils Garments

Book:The World According to Martha

Source: The World According to Martha

“There is nothing in the world so dangerous, or so overwhelming as stupidity; perhaps there is no more of it now than there has been at any time, but I do not think the witless of past generations had so much power. The powers of darkness are the powers of misdirected knowledge.”

Thinking World Has Beens Past Darkness Generations Dangerous Stupidity Overwhelming Past Generations

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!”

“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.”

World Trying I Can Past Artist Difficult Growing Up Growing This World Standing Who I Am

Author:Matt Bomer

“The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and all hope for the future. Since when has any one made it appear that shackled thought could get on better than that which is free? Brains are a great misfortune if one is never to use them.”

Ifs World Made Use Past Brain Progress Made It Misfortunes Hope For The Future Free Thought

Author:Richard Savage

“Once a man's will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed.”

Men World Needs Heart Earth Past Heaven Vision Rely Tranquility Heaven And Earth Past And Present

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.”

World Years Humans Heart Art Two Past Sacrifice Battle Thousand Skins Weight Victim Heavy Warrior Fifty Two Years Mexico Jaguars

Author:Biloine W. Young

“This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the "evil empire" may have passed, evil still remains.”

World May Stills Humor Past Political Certain Evil Huge Remains Nuclear Empires Uncertain Versus Arsenal Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.”

World War Past Social War Of The Worlds Territory World War 2 Social Systems

Author:Joseph Stalin

“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

“I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.”

World Persons I Can Past Race Talking Leader Imagine Sitting Down And Mars Servitude Baggage Supremacy Sitting Down

Author:Alice Walker

“I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness”

Ifs World Past Beautiful Lord Creating Various Seduction Thank You Lord

Book:The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

Source: The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

“Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.”

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.”

Ifs World Humans Body Past Three Century Changed Shapes Size Longevity Human Body

Author:Robert Fogel

“For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earths true past was dug up in abundance.”

World Firsts Believe Earth Past Creation Changed Industry Diversity Fixed Abundance Fuel Never Change Stirring Railway Great Diversity Diversity Of Life

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“Everything that's happening in our world is a function of what is going on inside of people. We are violent in our minds. We are violent with one another. We walk past one another in the street and don't even look nor make eye contact - don't speak. We can be outraged about the missiles and the planes. I'm more outraged that somebody will walk past me in the street and not look me in the face and say good morning.”

People World Mind Looks Eye Past Faces Speak Walks Morning Streets Happenings Function Violent Contact Planes Our World Missiles Outraged Eye Contact

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.”

“It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God. This refusal does not presuppose any belief. It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind: that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary, are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.”

“The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.”

Knows Men World May Soul Body Together Past Dies Church Hell Ready Casts Disagree Creeds Fear Not Sanctity Ready To Die Sanctity Of Marriage

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.”

Ifs World Way Trying Mean Dream Past My Own Sleep Brain Wonder Bears Sorrow Healthy Scene Fingers Forgotten Tiny Holes Grass Prophet Dreamer Bubbles Wet Peers Blades Curls Sinkholes

Author:Karen Russell

“Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.”

Men World Want Soul Past Dies Father Masters Music Is Rivers Spread Streams Nurture Rough Times

Author:Ali Akbar Khan

“Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.”

Men World Wells Past Nations Dangerous Drama Warning Fearful Ominous Deathless Ageless

Author:John Mason Brown

“The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.”

Knows World Soul Running Action Past Lying Opportunity Loss Keys Shadow Wide Attraction Scholar My Thoughts Grudge Tumult

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.”

Source: CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…

“All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.”

Men World Past Young Hate Nations Generations Tradition Bounds Casts Young Man Delusion Suspicion Slogans Blinded Rivalry Power Man

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I stopped trying to chase the perfect place to be, and realized the perfect place is with your loved ones and your closest friends, around the dinner table, over a good meal, talking about the past year and the year to come and things that you want to change in your life. You hear their stories and talk about things you'd like to see happen in the world. That's what we do.”

World Want Trying Years Stories Happens Past Perfect Talking Tables Dinner Meals Loved Ones Closest Dinner Table Closest Friends Good Meals

Author:Hilary Swank

“Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.”

People World Past Moving Born Hurt Deals Situation Failing Cry This World Becoming Mess Fearful Bloody Differentiate

Author:Robert Greene

“The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.”

World Past Daring

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?”

World Years Has Beens States Home Past Suffering Millions Identity Injustice Around The World Camps Palestinian Refugee Exile Refugee Camps Palestinian Refugees

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.”

World Children Past Certain Time Literature Language Sick Dancing Tunes Cracked Dreary Sick Children

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”

World Art Reason Age Past Growing Achievement Growing Old Doers Retrospect Art And Science Talkers

Author:William Hazlitt

“Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage.”

World Mind War Age Past Fire Inspire Arms Rage Honour Infant Vocal Manly Kindles Brass

Book:The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.”

Men World Years Earth Past Time Order Hours Sleep Broken Circles Thread Arousal Times Past

Author:Marcel Proust

“Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.”

Ifs World War Country America Past Causes Principles Virtue Honest Inspire Bears Fame Equal Ambition Fairs Adversity Prosperity Opening Firm Temper Remembrance Serene

Author:Thomas Paine