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"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
Zora Neale Hurston
"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
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"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."
Stephen Fry
"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."
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"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
Louis D. Brandeis
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
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"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."
Swami Vivekananda
"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."
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"The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world."
Peter Mandelson
"The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world."
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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."
E. B. White
"The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative."
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"I loved all the world's mythologies."
Lloyd Alexander
"I loved all the world's mythologies."
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"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."
Nikolai Gogol
"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."
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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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"We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world."
Harry Shearer
"We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world."
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"Syllables govern the world."
George Bernard Shaw
"Syllables govern 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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"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."
Ralph Ellison
"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."
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"We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done."
David Axelrod
"We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done."
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"Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship."
Boris Spassky
"Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship."
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"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
Moliere
"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
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"The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows."
Paul Samuelson
"The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows."
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"And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price."
Lawrence Taylor
"And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price."
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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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"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."
Twyla Tharp
"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."
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"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."
James M. Barrie
"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."
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"I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American."
Larry Bird
"I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American."
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"We live in a niche world."
Leigh Steinberg
"We live in a niche world."
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"Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?"
Boris Becker
"Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?"
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"I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess."
Monica Keena
"I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess."
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"I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it."
George William Norris
"I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it."
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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
James A. Baldwin
"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
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"The world is as it should be."
Omar Epps
"The world is as it should be."
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"It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone."
Bobby Heenan
"It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone."
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"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."
Maynard James Keenan
"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."
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"The world is a strange and wonderful place."
Laurie Anderson
"The world is a strange and wonderful place."
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"So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world."
Jim Coleman
"So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world."
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"For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world."
Bennett Cerf
"For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world."
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"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
Sean O'Casey
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
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"The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours."
William Hazlitt
"The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours."
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"If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be."
Yogi Berra
"If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be."
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"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."
James Green Somerville
"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."
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"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."
Cher
"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."
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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
W. H. Auden
"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
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"Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one."
Li Peng
"Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one."
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"One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show."
Laurie Anderson
"One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show."
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"I much prefer the modern world."
Keith Henson
"I much prefer the modern world."
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"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"
Cameron Diaz
"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"
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"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
Buenaventura Durruti
"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
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"That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond."
Pierce Brosnan
"That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond."
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"Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!"
Ian Smith
"Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!"
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"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies."
Tertullian
"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies."
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"There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it."
Pam Grier
"There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it."
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"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."
John Lennon
"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."
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"I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup."
Alan Hansen
"I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup."
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