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World Quotes - Page 487

War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination

Ralph Hale Mottram, John Easton, Eric Partridge (1930). “Three Men's War: The Personal Records of Active Service”

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

"Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely". The New York Times Magazine, p. 62, April 25, 1971.

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.

Eric Butterworth (2001). “The Power Within”, p.68, James Clarke & Co.

How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!

Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.77, 1st World Publishing

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

"History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.