- Love
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.
- High School Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being in the world of the unknown.
- My Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'
- Fashion World
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020