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
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• "By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."
  By: Lao-Tzu
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• "In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world."
  By: Charles Lamb
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• "We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt."
  By: R. D. Laing
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• "Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."
  By: Louis L'Amour
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• "No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches."
  By: Milan Kundera
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• "In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."
  By: Jiddu Krishnamurti
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• "The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original."
  By: Karl Kraus
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• "Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
  By: Karl Kraus
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• "To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."
  By: Michael Korda
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• "And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?"
  By: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
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• "The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."
  By: Stephen King
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• "Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu."
  By: Florence King
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• "People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
  By: Søren Kierkegaard
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• "A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."
  By: Ken Keys
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• "World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."
  By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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