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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.
- Developing World
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.
- Difficult Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
- Envision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
- Inevitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe world peace is inevitable.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world's history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive.
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- Nov 07, 2020