This World Quotes - Page 13

• It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

  Francoise Sagan

  Thinking, Common Sense, World

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• The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

  Samuel Smiles

  Book, Voice, World

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• From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Evil, Mind, World

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

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• The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Civilization, White

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• I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christmas, Ideas, Mixing

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• Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.

  Jean Ingelow

  Tears, World, Showers

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206

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• What is this world?--A term which men have got,
  To signify not one in ten knows what;
  A term, which with no more precision passes
  To point out herds of men than herds of asses;
  In common use no more it means, we find,
  Than many fools in same opinions joined.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Men, Use

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.61

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• If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.32, Rowman Altamira

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• I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hatred, Religion, Atheism

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• At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.

  John Shelby Spong

  Easter, Religion, Three

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Resurrection: Myth or Reality?”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

  Ray Lewis

  Children, Giving Up, Kids

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

  Sarah Kay

  Trying, World, May

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.

  Sarah Kay

  Falling In Love, People, Important

  Source: saseye.com

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• This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

  Paul Polman

  Past, Skills, Needs

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

  Andrew Stanton

  Keys, Vacuums, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Loss, Men

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

  Marie Corelli

  Truth, Liars, Writing

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• Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Trying, World

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• What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Money, Giving, World

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.80

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• I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

  Stevie Smith

  Pain, Lying, Thinking

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• Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

  John Tillotson

  Reality, Religion, World

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• If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Lasts, Needs

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.18

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• The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

  Merle Shain

  Life, World, Cheated

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• I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Believe, Intelligent, Creating

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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• Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  War, Believe, Democracy

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