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"There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones."
Hugh MacDiarmid
"There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones."
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"Ten days that shook the world."
John Reed
"Ten days that shook the world."
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"I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually."
Billie Jean King
"I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually."
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"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original."
Joseph Haydn
"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original."
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"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper."
T. S. Eliot
"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper."
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"And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code."
Brian Behlendorf
"And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code."
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"I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it."
Hazel Scott
"I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it."
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"I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live."
Thomas Dooley
"I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live."
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"Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes."
Dennis Hastert
"Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes."
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"If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination."
Nick Lowe
"If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination."
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"You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy."
John Zorn
"You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy."
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"But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing."
Cliff Richard
"But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing."
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"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
Charles William Eliot
"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
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"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."
Elizabeth Harrison
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."
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"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."
Phil Gramm
"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."
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"You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room."
Carol Channing
"You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room."
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"I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces."
Daniel J. Bernstein
"I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces."
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"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."
Sharon Olds
"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."
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"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."
George Villiers
"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."
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"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here."
Aaron Funk
"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here."
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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
Will M. Cook
"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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"You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member."
Neil LaBute
"You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member."
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"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."
Star Jones
"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."
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"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
Renata Adler
"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
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"The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world."
Roger Spottiswoode
"The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world."
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"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world."
George Sand
"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world."
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"What is the world coming to?"
Ozzy Osbourne
"What is the world coming to?"
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"For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place."
William S. Cohen
"For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place."
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"From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today."
John Hoeven
"From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today."
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"Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world."
Roger Ascham
"Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world."
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"I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others."
Joe Flanigan
"I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Ernest Hemingway
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world."
Milla Jovovich
"It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world."
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"The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor."
Rob Simmons
"The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor."
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"'Tis always morning somewhere in the world."
Richard Henry Horne
"'Tis always morning somewhere in the world."
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"The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission."
Ken MacLeod
"The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission."
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"The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem."
Gary Lineker
"The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem."
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"The world is filled with air bases."
John C. Shepard
"The world is filled with air bases."
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"Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world."
Peter York
"Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world."
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"It's a brave new world."
Howard Kurtz
"It's a brave new world."
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"For me, Schubert contains the world."
Janet Baker
"For me, Schubert contains the world."
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"Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next."
Jones Very
"Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next."
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"And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?"
Marliece Andrada
"And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?"
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"All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle."
Edie Adams
"All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle."
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"We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills."
Janette Turner Hospital
"We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills."
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"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."
Bill Withers
"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."
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"Your world is as big as you make it."
Georgia Douglas Johnson
"Your world is as big as you make it."
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"Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?"
E. C. Bentley
"Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?"
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"We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice."
Frederick Albert Cook
"We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice."
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"We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer."
Mike Conaway
"We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer."
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