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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.
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- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
- Disciplines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020