- History
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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
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Chinese economy can be opened so that currencies are convertible, Chinese tourists can take money and go see the world. Chinese businessmen can go and buy property in the U.S. and France and every place. All of a sudden, it's just going to be a blossoming global economy. I think it's going to be good for everybody.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
- New Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.
- You
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can quite happily exist in your own version of the world built around you, which you can build for yourself.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being given a demo of the ‘World Wide Web’ at Peter Gabriel’s studio in the early 90s, and I had zero comprehension that I was staring into the future. I was just happy with my pager and teletext on the TV.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020