- Life
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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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world.
- Forged
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 13, I forged my date of birth so that I could get a Saturday job at Woolworth's, earning £1 3s 6d for the day. But my real ambition was to do something in the music world - or, at least, close to it.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not used to society; you're not used to the world going by so fast - so to step on that lot was quite overwhelming.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like the rest of the world, I became a product of my environment, and this environment was gang culture.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world renowned pediatric surgeon who had a tumultuous Senate confirmation process due to partisanship. Chic took office in January 1982, a time of 'tobacco wars' and a new and evolving terrifying disease that we ultimately came to know as AIDS.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.
- Nov 07, 2020
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not, we were the world's policeman. There was no other cop on the beat. Now, that leadership is gone. So, increasingly, will be peace.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020