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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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hugh Jackman is just the nicest person in the world. I know everybody says that, and it's almost boring to hear, but he is really, really perfect.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020