- People
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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
- Gospel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
What effect am I having on this world? I'm not sure yet. I have my worries, doubts and fears, but the way I'm trying to affect the world is with positive, right action.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
- Glittering
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.
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