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How many languages are there in the world How about 5 billion Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in hisher own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure Remember, you must

It is not difficult to get away into retirement and there live upon your own convictions nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions but to enter into the world and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience that is Christian greatness.

The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.

If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion

As the rest of the world is walking out the door, your best friend's are the ones walking in.

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

Our country is the only one in the world with a national anthem that the last two words are Play Ball

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

Defeat may test you it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.

Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.

I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago.

It doesn't matter much what happens in this world, there's going to be somebody who'll tell you that he knew it would.

There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all.

The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.

The world is run by C students.

When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part of the problem or part of the solution

In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense.

When life seems just a dreary grind and things seem fated to annoy say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.

You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world.

When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him not to publish it, saying, ''The world is bad enough with the Bible what would it be without it''

The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said ''Yes, we have no bananas,'' and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were -- and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him.

If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

If we listen more than we talk,and instead of making sure our voice is heard,we make sure we hear their voice,and if everyone listened....and Intead of filling silence with words,we fill ourselves with silence,the world would be a better place