World Quotes

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

  Betty Smith

  Children, War, Heart

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• Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are the people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it is a matter of emotion, not logic. You see angry people aren't interested in justice, they just want an excuse to vent their rage.

  Ilona Andrews

  People, Justice, Enemy

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Graduation, Wise

  "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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  The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

  "The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• To be simple is the best thing in the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Sweat, Simplicity

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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  In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Dream, Hate

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Feb 01, 2017

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

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• Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

  Clarice Lispector

  Life, Saying Yes, Novelists

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• The world remains ever the same.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Remains

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.117, Ravenio Books

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

  Herbert Read

  Equality, Literature, Realizing

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

  Charles Kingsley

  Life, Wonderful, Strongest

  Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.39, Charles Kingsley

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• If all the world must see the world
  As the world the world hath seen,
  Then it were better for the world
  That the world have never been.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Ifs

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.89

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• Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

  Francois Rabelais

  Doe, Half, Know How

  "Pantagruel". Book by François Rabelais (chapter XXXII), 1532.

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• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Perseverance, Motivation, Fear

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• If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth...

  Anousheh Ansari

  Country, Home, Thinking

  "Memories Of The Earth As Seen From Space" by Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. April 20, 2007.

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• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Patriotic, Race

  'O'Flaherty V.C.' (1919) p. 178

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  And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Mother, Children

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• The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Independence, Village

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Nwo, World Government, Order

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “Perestroika and Soviet-American Relations”

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