World Quotes

• "It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things."
  By: Henry Miller
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• "Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin."
  By: Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• "The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation."
  By: Milarepa
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• "The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
  By: Michelangelo Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475-1564)
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• "What men value in this world is not rights but privileges."
  By: Henry Louis Mencken
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• "The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake."
  By: Henry Louis Mencken
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• "The chief value of money lies in the fact that we live in a world in which it is overestimated."
  By: Henry Louis Mencken
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• "Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable."
  By: Henry Louis Mencken
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• "Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended."
  By: Herman Melville
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• "We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us."
  By: Herman Melville
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• "Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."
  By: Bernard Meltzer
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• "I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
  By: Margaret Mead
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• "Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world."
  By: Malcolm Mclaren
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• "The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed."
  By: Donald H. Mcgannon
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• "While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world."
  By: Carson Mccullers
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• "A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world."
  By: Mary McCarthy
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