- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.
- Eggs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
- Nov 07, 2020
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020