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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
John James Audubon

True, Children, Knows

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.
Michael Jordan

Basketball, Young, Learn

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
J. B. Priestley

Snow, Different, Another

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs

Good, Country, Place

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace, Science, Live

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Path, Door, Beaten

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
John Lennon

Generation, Ship, Discover

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Enthusiasm moves the world.
Arthur Balfour

Enthusiasm, Moves

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, Everything, Become

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Khalil Gibran

Human, Makes, Seem

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato

Power, End, Political

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Khalil Gibran

Toward, Contempt, Viewing

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

Same, Once, Times

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, God, Lord

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
Mitt Romney

Family, Home, America

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao Tzu

Overcome, Hardest

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

Career, Two, Else

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

Art, Reality, Unbearable

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
Michael Jordan

Life, Travel, Basketball

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

Live, Joy, Cannot

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne Dyer

Live, Same, Loving

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
Angelina Jolie

Sex, Die, Before

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Power, Live

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

Work, Rest, Full

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao Tzu

Whole, Looking, Less

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

Design, Reality, Place

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
Marilyn Monroe

Whole, Felt, Outside

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
Marilyn Monroe

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Moment, Acting

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