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Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.
What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.
When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.
It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.
Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.
I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.
At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.
Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll earn at least $24,000 in cash.
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.
As soon as you start analyzing comedy is when the world starts to fall apart, and we're second guessing it. And we are way too sensitive.
I believe the previous administration shrunk from some of our responsibilities as a superpower and made the world a more dangerous place.
What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.
You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?
And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.
A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.
No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings.
Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil
When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.
Educated and productive young people are needed to help # LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.
He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.
What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.
The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.
I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.
Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.
You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
I am very proud that Britain has helped to lead a stronger case on climate change in the EU and the EU has led the case across the world.
I love my life! Even if I don't get what I want, when I want it, doesn't mean the world is against me, it just means God has other plans.
Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.