- Donated
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very dangerous.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
- Full
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020