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«This world is very odd we see, We do not comprehend it; But in one fact we all agree, God won't, and we can't mend it»
Author: Arthur Hugh Clough (Poet, Writer) | About: World | Keywords: comprehend, mend
«This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.»
Author: Barry Diller | About: World
«The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak»
Author: Baruch Spinoza (Philosopher) | About: Happiness, Men, Silence, World | Keywords: happier
«To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.»
«To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks | About: Art, World | Keywords: distractions
«Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.»
Author: Peter B. Medawar (Zoologist) | About: Change, World | Keywords: take leave
«This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.»
«This world has too low a ceiling for aspiring man! J»
Author: Wallace Hamilton | About: World
«Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.»
«To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.»