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To heal the world, we must start by healing our children.
Author:
King of Pop - Michael Jackson
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Spread love and positivity like confetti; it makes the world a brighter place.
Author:
Sophie Turner
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Never underestimate the power of kindness, it has the ability to change the world.
Author:
Rachel Johnson
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Wisdom is the key to unlocking unlimited potential in a limited world.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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Never underestimate the power of kindness, for it holds the key to changing the world.
Author:
Samantha Parker
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Where there is kindness, there is always beauty in the world.
Author:
Sophia Clark
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When in doubt, spread kindness like confetti and let it sparkle in the world.
Author:
Emily Smith
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Creativity is not just a talent, it's a mindset that fuels innovation and changes the world.
Author:
Samantha Jones
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Spread love like wildfire, for it is the only way to nurture a better world.
Author:
Harper Green
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Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Author:
Mark Zuckerberg
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Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
Author:
Shoshana Zuboff
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Technology makes the world a new place.
Author:
Shoshana Zuboff
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You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.
Author:
John Zorn
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Author:
Emile Zola
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My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.
Author:
Chuck Zito
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Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.
Author:
Chuck Zito
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Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.
Author:
Stephanie Zimbalist
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Author:
Xun Zi
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The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Author:
Citium Zeno
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We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.
Author:
Niklas Zennstrom
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Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.
Author:
Harry Zell
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it.
Author:
Jason Zebehazy
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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
Author:
Panayiotis Zavos
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
Author:
Panayiotis Zavos
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I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.
Author:
Pia Zadora
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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Author:
Lin Yutang
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Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
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This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.
Author:
Rick Yune
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I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.
Author:
Robin Yount
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The world may believe as it pleases.
Author:
Cole Younger
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The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
Author:
Whitney Young
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People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.
Author:
Toby Young
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The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
Author:
Owen Young
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As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
Author:
Neil Young
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Author:
Andrew Young
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Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
Author:
Ovadia Yosef
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Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
Author:
Peter York
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Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
Author:
William Yeats
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Author:
William Yeats
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Author:
William Yeats
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
Author:
William Yeats
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History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
Author:
Peter Yarrow
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Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.
Author:
Martin Yan
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The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.
Author:
Martin Yan
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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
Author:
Gao Xingjian
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
Author:
Ron Wyden
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.
Author:
Wilhelm Wundt
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Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
Author:
Will Wright
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
Author:
Steven Wright
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I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.
Author:
Steven Wright
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America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.
Author:
Jeremiah Wright
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We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
Author:
Jeremiah Wright
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In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.
Author:
Jeremiah Wright
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I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
Author:
Jeffrey Wright
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
Author:
Francis Wright
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Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.
Author:
George Woodcock
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I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.
Author:
Diane Wood
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
Author:
Stephen Wolfram
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You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
Author:
Stephen Wolfram
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
Author:
James Wolfensohn
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The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.
Author:
James Wolfensohn
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I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.
Author:
James Wolfensohn
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We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
Author:
James Wolfensohn
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The world is independent of my will.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
Author:
Edward Witten
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I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.
Author:
Alicia Witt
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Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
Author:
Frederick Wiseman
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The world is not yet redeemed.
Author:
Isaac Wise
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Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.
Author:
Norman Wisdom
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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Author:
Niklaus Wirth
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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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I'm a fan of music from all over the world.
Author:
Michael Winterbottom
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That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.
Author:
Alex Winter
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I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
Author:
Alex Winter
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A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
Author:
Justin Winsor
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Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.
Author:
Justin Winsor
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Author:
Kate Winslet
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.
Author:
Dave Winer
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One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
Author:
Terri Windling
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There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Author:
Terri Windling
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
Author:
Peta Wilson
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I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
Author:
Kenneth Wilson
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In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
Author:
James Wilson
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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
Author:
E. Wilson
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The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
Author:
E. Wilson
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
Author:
E. Wilson
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Author:
E. Wilson
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Author:
Colin Wilson
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In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
Author:
August Wilson
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At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
Author:
William Wills
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What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.
Author:
William Wills
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.
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Connie Willis
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Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?
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Bruce Willis
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
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Marianne Williamson
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
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Henry Williamson
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Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
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Walter Williams
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It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
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Rowan Williams
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To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
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Rowan Williams
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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Robin Williams
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
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Robin Williams
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The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.
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Roberta Williams
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I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!
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Robbie Williams
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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Ralph Williams
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When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.
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Pharrell Williams
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Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.
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Montel Williams
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I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.
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Montel Williams
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As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.
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Montel Williams
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It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Author:
Kit Williams
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The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
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John Williams
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Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
Author:
Esther Williams
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Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
Author:
Esther Williams
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What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Author:
Bern Williams
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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Author:
Bern Williams
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We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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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.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.
Author:
Anthony Williams
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World War II was the last government program that really worked.
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George Will
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.
Author:
George Will
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The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
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Kaiser Wilhelm
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.
Author:
Kim Wilde
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Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.
Author:
Kate Wiggins
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The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.
Author:
Norbert Wiener
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The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
Author:
Norbert Wiener
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
Author:
Christine Whitman
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I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution."
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Author:
William White
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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Author:
Theodore White
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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.
Author:
T. White
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I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.
Author:
Ryan White
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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Author:
Paul White
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I've always kind of lived in my own world.
Author:
Meg White
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Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
Author:
Meg White
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I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world.
Author:
Kelli White
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Author:
E. White
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
Author:
E. White
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
Author:
E. White
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There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
Author:
Bryan White
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I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.
Author:
Joss Whedon
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If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.
Author:
Wil Wheaton
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I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
Author:
Christiaan Wet
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We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
Author:
William Westmoreland
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I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.
Author:
Donald Westlake
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My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.
Author:
Donald Westlake
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I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!
Author:
Randy West
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
Author:
Morris West
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The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
Author:
Eudora Welty
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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We can remake the world daily.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Author:
H. Wells
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
Author:
H. Wells
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
Author:
H. Wells
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Author:
Carolyn Wells
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You know, it's a long world.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
Author:
William Weld
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It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
Author:
William Weld
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For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
Author:
Robert Welch