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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of creating a quote-unquote 'retro' world isn't all that appealing to me by itself.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
- Conventional Wisdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
- Falling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my father on the Under-21 team and during the World Cup in France in 1998 - and also in AC Milan for four months. So it was a weird experience, because having your father as a coach is pretty weird, and I was the captain. But he was great.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sergio Ramos has everything to become the best defender in the world, if he is not already.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny that as soon as I retired from international football, Italy won the World Cup.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
- Gay
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