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World Quotes - Page 69

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.

Carl Schmitt (2008). “The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition”, p.53, University of Chicago Press

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

Ann M. Martin (2014). “The Baby-Sitters Club #57: Dawn Saves the Planet”, p.98, Scholastic Inc.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

Quoted in AndyWarhol (exhibition catalogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden) (1968). Usually quoted simply with "famous" rather than "world famous."

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

"Happy ever after" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Broadway memorial tribute to Saroyan, reported in The New York Times, October 31, 1983.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.284

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.79, Rowman & Littlefield

The world exists to end up in a book.

"Encrypted" by Alex Ross, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2016.