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«No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.»
«Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Self-knowledge,
Trouble,
World
| Keywords:
abilities, all the way, almost all, frailties, ninety, percent, Strangers, virtues, woe
«No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind»
Author: George Washington Carver
(Chemist, Educator, horticulturist)
| About:
People,
World
| Keywords:
come into, leaving
«No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . ..»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Decision,
World
| Keywords:
account, any longer, sensible
«Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Foolishness,
World
| Keywords:
follies, wanting
«One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.»
«Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the g»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
chain reaction, nova, novas, scope, stellar, take into account, vividly
«Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Mankind,
Perfection,
Possessions,
Power,
Progress,
World
| Keywords:
driven, e'en, external, increasingly, insatiable, materialistic, nowadays, possessions, reaching, striving, vast, zenith
«Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Criticism,
World
| Keywords:
imagined, profundities, profundity
«Now it so happens in the world that opposed to characters of such persons as he there are characters like mine, for instance. I care as little for the world's opinion as that man cared for what was right. To appear right was enough for him; what I th»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
cared-for, characters, for instance, instance, opposed
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