World Quotes

• "Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
  By: Gore Vidal
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• "All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world."
  By: Gore Vidal
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• "Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen."
  By: Henry Vaughan
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• "When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics."
  By: Bill Vaughan
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• "The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified."
  By: John Updike
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• "A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
  By: John Updike
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• "The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self."
  By: Katha Upanishad
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• "There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish."
  By: Miguel de Unamuno
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• "The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
  By: Miguel de Unamuno
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• "There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants."
  By: Mark Twain
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