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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or light:

    “Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)