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Worlds Quotes (page 484)

In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists. John Philpot Curran
[M]an's power, and its way of operation, [is] muchwhat the same in the material and intellectual world. For the materials in both being such as he has no power over, either to make or destroy, all that man can do, is either to unite them together, or to set them by one another, or wholly separate them. John Locke
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the... George Orwell
The World is pretty much divided between the weak of mind & the strong- between those who can act & those who cannot, & it is the bounden Duty of the Capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them. Jane Austen
The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I. Virginia Woolf
Alice Walker quote: "I feel peace with the world."
I feel peace with the world. Alice Walker
Black Elk quote: "The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm."
The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm. Black Elk
No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world. Franz Kafka
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes. R. Buckminster Fuller
And, therefore, hold your head high, Herr Stiefel!——Such a crisis as this comes to all of us and will soon be surmounted. If all of us had recourse to dagger or poison in such cases, there would soon be no men left in the world. Frank Wedekind
Yukio Mishima quote: "of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is..."
...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. Yukio Mishima
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be. Nicholas Sparks
Thomas Paine quote: "My country is the world, my religion - to do good."
My country is the world, my religion - to do good. Thomas Paine
Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about the healing of stoneware pots. Stephen R. Donaldson
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World."
Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World. Diana Wynne Jones

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