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«In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue»
«In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare»
Author: Gifford Pinchot
| About:
World
| Keywords:
controlling, efficiency, factor, factor in, New World, Old World, safety factor, welfare
«In this world it rains on the Just and the Unjust alike, but the Unjust have the Just's umbrellas»
«In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Genius,
World
| Keywords:
evolution, excepting, geniuses, one species, preside, presided, presiding, primitive, There exists
«In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world»
«In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.»
«In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Sadness,
World
| Keywords:
rejoice, Republican, thankful
«In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; At noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; And at night, it crushes us flat to the ground»
«In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.»
«In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Humanity,
World
| Keywords:
antechamber, diminish, division, in darkness, plainly
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