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  • "Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision."
    By: James Thurber
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  • "The real world is not user-friendly."
    By: Kelvin Throop III
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  • "The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine."
    By: Henry David Thoreau
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  • "On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world."
    By: Henry David Thoreau
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  • "In wildness is the preservation of the world."
    By: Henry David Thoreau
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  • "If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you."
    By: Margaret Thatcher
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  • "Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."
    By: Mother Teresa
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  • "The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."
    By: Jonathan Swift
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  • "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it."
    By: Jonathan Swift
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  • "But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole."
    By: Jonathan Swift
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  • "When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."
    By: Johnathan Swift
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  • "The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little."
    By: Ben Sweetland
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  • "There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness."
    By: Han Suyin
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  • "The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try."
    By: Gordon Sumner
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  • "I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
    By: Tom Stoppard
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  • "I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision."
    By: W. Clement Stone
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