- Hate
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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
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies.
- Nov 07, 2020
You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?
- Shakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why the heck do we allow the media to ever tell us someone is gross? It makes me so mad. 99% of the world has flaws.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020