This World Quotes - Page 27

• It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.

  Robert Frost

  World, Hard

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• There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

  H. G. Wells

  Errors, Race, Evil

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• Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

  Dale Carnegie

  World, Brilliant, Perserverance

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “The Leader In You: The Leader In You”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

  Mary Oliver

  Lying, Imagination, Heaven

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.

  Fred Rogers

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

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• There's no justice in this world.

  Frank Costello

  Justice, World

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• From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

  Winston Churchill

  Civilization, World, Growing

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• All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

  William E. Gladstone

  Flower, Book, Civilization

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• The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

  Charles Kettering

  Opportunity, Views, Imagination

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• Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.

  Bob Dylan

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Bob Dylan's acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys, www.expectingrain.com. February 20, 1991.

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• I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Special, World

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• I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

  Lewis Black

  Real, World, Palin

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• The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

  Adolf Hitler

  Democracy, Culture, World

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.

  Adolf Hitler

  Land, People, Giving

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Blood, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, House, Burning

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• We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Judging, World, Study

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• The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

  Aldous Huxley

  Morning, World, Lambs

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• This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, Will Power

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford

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• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Believe

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• With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  World, Pitcher, Wells

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1864). “Poems”, p.328

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• Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Reading, Humble, Men

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• At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters in this world, so I had a strong bias toward actually writing, and worrying about research later. In other words, I was afraid that I'd devote a year or two of my life to grinding through Kant and Husserl, then discover that there simply was no novel to be written here.

  Neal Stephenson

  Strong, Character, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Opportunity, Inheritance, World

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Racism, Environmental, Contentment

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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