- Me
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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
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think is if the world is in some difficulty - about climate change, about economics - then we had better make sure that 100 per cent of every brain available on the planet is working at full pelt to try to sort these things out.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm not creating transcendent works that will someday be taught in college. All I do is entertain. I try to entertain others by sending them into another world for a few hours. When I see my books read on the beach, the pages dabbed with suntan lotion, then I feel as if I've done my job.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020