Save The World Quotes - Page 9

• I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

  Samuel Dash

  Men, Serious, World

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• It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Missionary, World, Missions

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• I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

  Illeana Douglas

  Ideas, People, World

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• It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

  Carrie Jones

  World, Save Yourself, Hard

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.

  W. S. Merwin

  Thinking, Trying, World

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• You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun.

  Katie MacAlister

  Funny Inspirational, World, Saving

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• In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

  Ali Liebegott

  Book, Class, World

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• How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

  Pete Seeger

  Community, World, Ifs

  "The Word Gets Around". Interview with Howard Jay Rubin, www.thesunmagazine.org. 1981.

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• I don't necessarily think veganism is going to save the world.

  Bryant Terry

  Thinking, World, Veganism

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• Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Children, Long

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• Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

  Vandana Shiva

  Engineering, World, Saving

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• They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

  Dar Williams

  Jobs, World, Praying

  Song: Are You Out There, Album: End of the Summer

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• What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?

  Kyle Chandler

  Running, Capes, World

  "Fictional character: Gary Hobson". TV Series "Early Edition" ("Pilot", 1996), www.imdb.com. 1996–2000.

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• You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

  Morton Blackwell

  World, Pay, Ifs

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• Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Umpires, Needs, World

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• GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the specter of famine, people are free to fetishize heirloom tomatoes and worry about the provenance of what sits on their dinner tables.

  Annalee Newitz

  Gmos, Agriculture, Worry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To stay young,
  To save the world,
  Break the mirror.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Mirrors, World, Break

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• No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.

  Bob Parr

  Secret Identity, Superhero, World

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• If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

  Phyllis Bottome

  World, Way, Rich

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Priorities, World, Saving

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• I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support.

  Robert Breault

  Support, World, Financial

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• The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, World, Littles

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Kids, Inspire

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• Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.

  Peter Joseph

  Philosophical, Law, Behaviour

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• Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

  Paul Robeson

  War, World, Destruction

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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