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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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  • "The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
    By: Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • "There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse."
    By: Laurence Sterne
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  • "Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"
    By: Laurence Sterne
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  • "For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable."
    By: Gloria Steinem
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  • "The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat."
    By: Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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  • "Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty."
    By: Konstantin Stanislavisky
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  • "People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
    By: Bruce Springsteen
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  • "Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise."
    By: Bishop Robert South
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  • "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.'"
    By: Susan Sontag
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  • "Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated."
    By: Susan Sontag
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  • "Let him that would move the world, first move himself."
    By: Socrates Greek philosopher (469 BC - 399 BC)
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  • "I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
    By: Socrates Greek philosopher (469 BC - 399 BC)
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  • "Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."
    By: Sydney Smith
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  • "A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage."
    By: Sydney Smith
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  • "The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."
    By: Roy L. Smith
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  • "When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."
    By: Oprah Winfrey
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  • "For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise."
    By: Viktor Schauberger
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  • "There's no reason people who work have to be resigned to situations and endure circumstances when we all possess the power to create better futures."
    By: John Renesch
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  • "To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past."
    By: Eric Hoffer
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  • "Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken."
    By: Eric Hoffer
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  • "When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go."
    By: Jack Welch
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  • "The future is the past returning through another gate."
    By: Arnold Glasgow
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  • "I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."
    By: George Burns
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