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«The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.»
Author: Barbara Ward | About: World | Keywords: clay, dimensions, reasonably, uncritical
«The earth laughs in flowers.»
Author: E. E. Cummings | About: World | Keywords: flowers, laughs, the Earth
«The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.»
«The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.»
«The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere»
Author: John Mortimer | About: Conflict, World | Keywords: brutalities, executions, ira, Iran
«The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.»
«The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house»
Author: William Graham Sumner | About: World | Keywords: penitentiary
«The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others»
«The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.»
«The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind»