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World Quotes
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If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
George Carlin
Stage
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World
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.
Madonna
World
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Goal
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
Speech in the House of Commons (1865-05-01)
Assassination
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History
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World
When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.
John Cleese
Age
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World
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People
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Fantasy
It is an amiable illusion, which the shape of our planet prompts, that every man is at the top of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People
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World
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Illusion
At this point of his effort man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Albert Camus
Man
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Existence
,
World
Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature — nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present — and it was we who gave and bestowed it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science
Value
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World
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Nature
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
The Bible
John
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Jesus-christ
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World
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Book
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
World
,
Talking
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Maxims for Revolutionists
Man
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People
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World
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Progress
As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever change life on Earth. As citizens of the world, we have a duty to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day, and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change...There’s a realization that we are changing our climate for the worse. That would have catastrophic effects. Although the threat is not as dire as that of nuclear weapons right now, in the long term we are looking at a serious threat.
Stephen Hawking
At a press conference for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2007-01-17)
Scientist
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Nuclear-weapon
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Danger
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World
General disarmament being for the present entirely out of question, a proportionate reduction might be recommended. The safety of any country and of the world's commerce depending not on the absolute, but relative amount of war material, this would be evidently the first reasonable step to take towards universal economy and peace.
Nikola Tesla
A means for furthering Peace
Peace
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Economy
,
World
It continually manifests an ardent desire to refashion the world which presents itself to waking man, so that it will be as colorful, irregular, lacking in results and coherence, charming, and eternally new as the world of dreams.
Friedrich Nietzsche
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
World
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Dream
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Francis Bacon
Essays
Stranger
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Citizen
,
World
What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.
Nelson Mandela
George-w-bush
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World
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli
Lothair
Democracy
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Politician
,
World
Universal Peace, assuming it to be in the fullest sense realizable, might not require eons for its accomplishment, however probable this may appear, judging from the imperceptibly slow growth of all great reformatory ideas of the past.
Nikola Tesla
A means for furthering Peace
Peace
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Past
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Idea
,
World
How many rockstars does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Just one. Just hold it in place and let the whole world revolve around you.
David Roth
World
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan
Tragedy
,
World
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.
Kedar Joshi
World
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Contradiction
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Universe
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Paradox
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