World Search Map Quotes & Sayings

It came to be the natural rule of life with him, that no one should add to the burden of the world, but that each should try to lighten it. — Rabindranath Tagore

If we were to construct a similar map for society, it would have to include each person's professional and personal interests and chart everyone she or he knew. It would make Milgram's experiment seem clumsy and obsolete by allowing us to find, in seconds, the shortest path to any person in the world. It would be a must-use tool for everyone from politicians to salespeople and epidemiologists. Of course, such a social search engine is impossible to build, since it would take at least a lifetime to interrogate all 6 billion people on the earth to learn about their friends and acquaintances. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

All boxers are liars. Con men. The better the liar, the better the fighter. That's because if you knew what was in a fighter's heart, if you knew what he was really thinking, he'd be easier to find. And if you could find him, he'd be easier to hit. And if you could hit him, you might expose him. And that might expose every person they never stood up to and every person they never stood up for. A single blow can unveil the watermark of your soul in a way nothing else ever can. — Brin-Jonathan Butler

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.') — Thomas A Kempis

everyone has a right to prosper and succeed through hard work, innovation and excellence. We — Chetan Bhagat

1SA2.1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. — Anonymous

A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future. — Charles B. Rangel

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time. — Dennis Miller

Interesting point of view is to see humankind and its history as dysfunctional humanity, from very beginnings of first cultural traits up to this very day. It has been a long path of becoming. I am in search of a map that explains this dysfunctionality, this becoming. From that map, I will discover the world and humanity. — Adam Kovacevic

I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk. — Jools Holland

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God. — Therese Of Lisieux

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. — Thomas Paine

Having money isn't everything, not having it is. — Kanye West

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. — Yancy Butler