- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data scientists will earn more than $50 million per year, just like the world's best hedge fund managers.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
- Half The Time
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- Nov 07, 2020