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There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.
P. J. O'Rourke

Change, Problems, Whatever

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
Colin Powell

Talking, Nobody, Kinds

You can't regulate every lab in the world.
Stephen Hawking

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.
Stephen Hawking

Using, Scientists

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
Lewis Carroll

Love, Makes, Oh

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Person, Sometimes, Whole

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
Alvin Ailey

Work, Important, Human

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts

God, Become, Idea

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson

Rather, Show, Dog

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
David Walliams

Alone, Happy, Creativity

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
Jim DeMint

Mom, Dad, Greatest

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.
Lady Gaga

Single, Eyes, Soul

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams

Change, Words, Tell

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
Samuel Butler

Learn, Ground, Prepared

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler

Live, Enough, Else

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler

Good, Another, Speak

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Samuel Butler

History, Death, Opinion

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
Samuel Butler

Dreams, Good, Bad

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch

Men, Common, Awake

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard

Change, Aim, Journalism

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
Robert Fulghum

Best, True, Together

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan

Love, Important, Somebody

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen

Understand, Cannot, Half

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen

Girl, Reason, Youth

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard

Funny, Revenge, Children

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim DeMint

Change, Hope, Freedom

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley

Peace, Happiness, Great

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson

Work, Good, Healing

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
Benjamin E. Mays

Woman, Done, She

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Moses Hadas

Experience, Knowledge, Greatest

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