- 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
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
As governor of RBI, Dr. Rajan has sent confidential and sensitive financial information to various persons around the world on his University of Chicago unsecure personal email address. This is a reckless disregard of the national security of India.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has ever seen.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an unusual college experience because I traveled the world while going to school at the same time. Now, to look back, I was very lucky.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm on the rise and whatnot, but I'm not the man to say, 'All right, world, here's grime.' It's gonna take me, Skepta, JME, Novelist and Lethal Bizzle, to say, 'I'm sick, he's sick, he's sick, he's sick'. Not one man can do it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020