Short quotations about, world - Page 17

Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26

What does it profit a man if he gai…

15 Feb , 2011  

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul? Great short quote and quotation by: Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26 ,

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Chateaubriand

What importance can we attach to th…

15 Feb , 2011  

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that […]

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What is all wisdom save a collectio…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings– they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner […]

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What sane person could live in this…

15 Feb , 2011  

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Great short quote and quotation by: Ursula K. LeGuin ,

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Ursula K. LeGuin

What sane person could live in this…

15 Feb , 2011  

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Great short quote and quotation by: Ursula K. LeGuin ,

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What the world needs is not dogma b…

15 Feb , 2011  

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 […]

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What the world needs is more genius…

15 Feb , 2011  

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Levant , (1906 – 1972)

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President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God-fearing free natio

What the world needs today is a def…

15 Feb , 2011  

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. …And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us. Great short quote and quotation by: President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of […]

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Albert Pike

What we have done for ourselves alo…

15 Feb , 2011  

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Pike ,

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Albert Pine

What we do for ourselves dies with …

15 Feb , 2011  

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Pine ,

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What would the world do without tea…

15 Feb , 2011  

What would the world do without tea? – how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Great short quote and quotation by: Sydney Smith , English essayist (1771 – 1845)

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John Steinbeck, East of Eden

When a man comes to die, no matter …

15 Feb , 2011  

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying […]

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