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“The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world”. –Louis Agassiz

“If our squawking pacifists were rational, they would perceive that war can only be ended by abolishing the several species of mammals called human; our spacecraft have shown us that Mars and Venus are perfectly warless worlds”. –Revilo P. Oliver

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues”. –Elizabeth Gaskell

“The Jews are the aristocrats of the world”. –Samuel Untermyer

“We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced now — that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world”. –Martin Niemöller

“My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away”. –Harry Chapin

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world”. –Louis Pasteur

“The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain”. –Ronald Firbank

“Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security”. –Alexander Haig

“The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its doctrine”. –Adolf Hitler

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work”. –Michael Jackson

“The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world”. –J.D. Salinger

“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace”. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The world language is English as spoken by foreigners”. –Kristen Nygaard

“Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs the world”. –Polykarp Kusch

“America is the biggest gang in the world”. –Tupac Shakur

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”. –Albert Einstein

“Consider Ireland. You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question”. –Benjamin Disraeli

“Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world”. –Aleksandr Pushkin

“We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion”. –Michael Crichton

“That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World”. –William Petty

“Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world”. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

“In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world”. –Franz Kafka

“No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive”. –Hank Williams

“We will go down in history either as the world’s greatest statesmen or its worst villains”. –Hermann Göring

“Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love”. –Anton LaVey

“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world”. –Edgar Allan Poe