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«Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.»
«My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.»
Author: Faye Wattleton | About: World | Keywords: advancing, commitment
«Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate»
Author: John Muir | About: World | Keywords: polished, rigidly, sympathy, touching
«Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence»
«Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.»
«Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe»
«Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does»
«Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.»
«Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.»
«Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger»