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World
«What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
fine, planet, tolerable
«What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?»
«When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.»
«What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
| About:
Death and dying,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Slavery,
World
| Keywords:
bondage, phenomenon, To Die For
«When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore»
«When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Problems,
World
| Keywords:
barked, barking, job, mess, messes, messing, our own, settling, straighten, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up, talk about
«What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Goals,
World
| Keywords:
blot, derived, remotely, Rorschach, science and religion
«What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Guilt,
World
| Keywords:
estate, real estate, solid ground