End Of The World Quotes - Page 3

• The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

  Ernst Mach

  Struggle, Men, Average

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

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• You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

  Terry Southern

  Girl, Boys, World

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The world is literally about to blow up.

  Lindsey Graham

  Funny, Humorous, Blow

  "Lindsey Graham: The ‘World Is Literally About To Blow Up’" By Eugene Mulero, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2014.

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• The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

  Elia Kazan

  Red Lipstick, World, Ends

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• After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  War, Forever, World

  "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

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• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  War, Average, World

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• Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

  Ann Druyan

  Military, Mass Destruction, World

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• If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

  Peter Lynch

  World, Ends, Economist

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Book, Order

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

  Stephen Dorff

  Mean, Thinking, Scary

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• At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

  Sergio Aragones

  Trying, World, Ends

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• The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

  Booker T. Washington

  Race, Done, World

  Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.171, The Floating Press

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• At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

  Armstrong Williams

  Country, Unique, Doubt

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• And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Years, Cities

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• Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

  James Lovelock

  Average, World, Degrees

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• I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

  Kelly Preston

  Kids, Drug, World

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• Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

  Helen Clark

  Zimbabwe, World, Crank

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• I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Mistake, World, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kudrow from Dec 07, 2011

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• Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

  Kim Campbell

  War, People, Population

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• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  Hans Blix

  War, Decision, Nuclear

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• I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

  Isabel Allende

  Feminist, Catholic, Age

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• We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Russia, Wind, Achievement

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• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Believe, Mean

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