- Happiness
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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
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.
- Stability
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stability is not the way of the world.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.S. capital formation, which has been pretty high in the '90s and very high in the late 1990s, is what is being financed by the savings of the rest of the world, generally poorer than ourselves, because our deficit on current account, chronic deficit, is their surplus, and they have been willingly bringing that to the American market.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a powerful sword in economics, the world of economics was his or her oyster in 1935. The terrain was strewn with beautiful theorems begging to be picked up and arranged in unified order.
- Deteriorated
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- Nov 07, 2020