World

(305 votes)   He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(210 votes)   Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author

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(203 votes)   Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(191 votes)   I feel for the humanitarian efforts going on around the world; but I can't help be overwhelmed with the feeling that our planet; great mother earth, must be saved before any other success achieved by the human race is everlasting.

Ian Anderson
18 year old student. very little hope.

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(186 votes)   First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

Zen Aphorism

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(173 votes)   They think it's all over, itis now

Woolstenholme woolstenholme

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(162 votes)   The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(158 votes)   The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(150 votes)   world with out end

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(147 votes)   History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

Walter Bagehot
1826-1877, British Economist, Critic

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(141 votes)   We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

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(128 votes)   If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Pythagoras
BC 582-507, Greek Philosopher, Mathematician

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(128 votes)   To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

Lewis H. Lapham
1935-, American Essayist, Editor

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(125 votes)   Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

William E. Gladstone
1809-1888, British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman

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(120 votes)   People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as ''exotic'' but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

Hubert H. Humphrey
1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice President

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