- Artistic Expression
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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
- Flashing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
- Profound
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- Nov 07, 2020
The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.
- Dental
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
- Source
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family - it wasn't an abusive family - they meant well, but they were in their own world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020