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"One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all."
Abba Eban
"One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all."
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"I'm the slowest driver in the world."
Anthony Hopkins
"I'm the slowest driver in the world."
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"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
Alphonse de Lamartine
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
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"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world."
Fernando Pessoa
"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world."
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"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."
Abu Bakr
"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."
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"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."
Zahi Hawass
"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."
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"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
Quentin Crisp
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
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"The world is in motion, as it seems."
Utada Hikaru
"The world is in motion, as it seems."
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"China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world."
Sellapan Ramanathan
"China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world."
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"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
Gustav Mahler
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
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"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
Lennart Meri
"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
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"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."
Ben Okri
"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."
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"I feel great identification with the developing world."
Bianca Jagger
"I feel great identification with the developing world."
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"The world is always in movement."
V. S. Naipaul
"The world is always in movement."
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"The whole world is run on bluff."
Marcus Garvey
"The whole world is run on bluff."
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"The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan."
Andrew Niccol
"The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan."
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"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
Hugo Chavez
"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
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"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."
Stanislaw Lec
"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."
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"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
David Attenborough
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
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"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
Leo Burnett
"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
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"I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils."
Richard Leakey
"I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils."
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"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."
Jan Hammer
"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."
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"We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan."
Shaukat Aziz
"We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan."
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"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
Mary McLeod Bethune
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
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"Be yourself. The world worships the original."
Ingrid Bergman
"Be yourself. The world worships the original."
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"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me."
Cao Cao
"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me."
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"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
William S. Burroughs
"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
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"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
Nigel Mansell
"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
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"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."
Emile M. Cioran
"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."
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"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go."
Randy Travis
"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go."
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"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
Pedro Calderon
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
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"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."
Lennart Meri
"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."
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"I do not live in the world of sobriety."
Oliver Reed
"I do not live in the world of sobriety."
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"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
Desmond Tutu
"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
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"Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world."
Harry von Zell
"Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world."
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"When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate."
Robert Crumb
"When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate."
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"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
Joseph Conrad
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
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"I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely."
Angela Merkel
"I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely."
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"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Diogenes
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
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"It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?"
Bram Stoker
"It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?"
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"You have to stand up for some things in this world."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
"You have to stand up for some things in this world."
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"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
Philip Seymour Hoffman
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
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"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
Laurie Lee
"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
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"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."
Al Franken
"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."
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"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
Charlie Chaplin
"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
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"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
Alphonse de Lamartine
"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
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"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."
Snoop Dogg
"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."
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"At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world."
Karl Rove
"At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world."
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"When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low."
George Fox
"When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low."
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"World records are only borrowed."
Sebastian Coe
"World records are only borrowed."
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