- Live
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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
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments.
- Change Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.
- Bumper
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020