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You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
Michelle Obama

Heart, End, Important

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
Stephen Hawking

Change, Great, America

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Franklin P. Jones

Strange, Water, Language

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Through, Action, Road

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff

Work, Peace, Happiness

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Wilson Mizner

Women, Power, Water

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Men, Happy, Himself

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
William Glasser

Place, Else, Learn

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton

True, Enough, Large

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
Jon Stewart

Around, Internet, Passing

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey

Anyone, Places, Begun

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna

Truth, Indeed, Discard

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham

Anger, Thought, General

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice Walker

Power, Government, Confused

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka

Nature, Yourself, Free

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
P. J. O'Rourke

Women, Men, Young

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.
Richard Simmons

Nice, Why, Everyone

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
George Gobel

Feeling, Shoes, Pair

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Hermann Hesse

Special, Again, Once

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan

Sense, Far, Nonsense

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
E. O. Wilson

America, Living, Wonderful

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. Wilson

Real, Ideas, Sake

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
E. O. Wilson

Religion, Science, Powerful

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
E. O. Wilson

Living, Dream, Makes

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
E. O. Wilson

Noisy, Ant, Passed

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. Wilson

Energy, Around, Players

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. Wilson

Brain, Often, Constant

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
Neil Young

Before, Older, View

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
Lenny Kravitz

Change, God, Beautiful

The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. Truman

House, White, Prison

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