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«In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.»
«It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.»
«It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.»
«It is our illusions that create the world»
Author: Didier Cauwelaert | About: Illusion, World
«It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world»
Author: William Cobbett | About: Achievement, Misery, World | Keywords: attempting, leap
«It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home»
Author: Woody Guthrie (Composer, Singer) | About: World | Keywords: roamed, The World I, traveled
«It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world's progress has come out of such loneliness.»
«It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known»
«It's a funny old world.»
«It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: World | Keywords: quits

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