World Quotes

• "While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?"
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world."
  By: William James
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• "The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same."
  By: Clive James
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• "Stop worrying - nobody gets out of this world alive."
  By: Clive James
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• "Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
  By: Clive James
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• "We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it."
  By: Thomas Henry Huxley
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• "There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off."
  By: Thomas Henry Huxley
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• "The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental."
  By: Thomas Henry Huxley
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• "The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist."
  By: Aldous Huxley
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• "Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."
  By: Aldous Huxley
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• "Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget."
  By: Aldous Huxley
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• "A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
  By: Robert M. Hutchins
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• "The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations."
  By: Hubert H. Humphrey
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• "Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
  By: Victor Hugo
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• "To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live."
  By: Ruth Hubbard
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