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- "America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future."
By: Anne Morrow Lindbergh World Quotes
- "There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them."
By: G. C. Lichtenberg World Quotes
- "If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way."
By: G. C. Lichtenberg World Quotes
- "The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world."
By: C. S. Lewis World Quotes
- "Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
By: C. S. Lewis World Quotes
- "The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
By: C. Lévi-Strauss World Quotes
- "This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
By: Doris Lessing World Quotes
- "Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has."
By: Gerda Lerner World Quotes
- "We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."
By: John Lennon World Quotes
- "You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."
By: Bruce Lee World Quotes
- "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
By: Bruce Lee World Quotes
- "The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it."
By: David Herbert Lawrence World Quotes
- "Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance."
By: Joe Laurie Jr. World Quotes
- "Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows."
By: Lao-Tzu World Quotes
- "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
By: Lao-Tzu World Quotes
- "Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."
By: Lao-Tzu World Quotes
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- "Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race."
By: William S. Burroughs Women Quotes
- "Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."
By: William S. Burroughs Women Quotes
- "A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."
By: Julie Burchill Women Quotes
- "Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
By: Plato Greek philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC) Child Quotes
- "At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."
By: Cesare Pavese Child Quotes
- "It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child."
By: Liza Minnelli Child Quotes
- "A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far."
By: Alice Meynell Child Quotes
- "Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
By: Norman Mailer Child Quotes
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