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World Quotes


"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."


"This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world."


"They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan."


"To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world."


"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."


"The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen."


"Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace."


"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."


"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."


"On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world."


"Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes."


"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."


"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."


"Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!"


"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."


"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible."


"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."


"I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2."


"Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true."


"The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing."


"No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat."


"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."


"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."


"As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them."


"That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there."


"The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago."


"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."


"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."


"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."


"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."


"Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world."


"But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world."


"I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."


"Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?"


"As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much."


"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world."


"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."
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