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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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
- Freedom Of Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider the United States Senate the greatest deliberative body in the world, and I respect the important role the Constitution affords it in the confirmation of our judges.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, the Supreme Court's work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people's liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are passionate about Warby Parker are passionate about creating a company that can scale, be profitable, and do good in the world - without charging a premium for it.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The person who serves as president of the United States is the de facto leader of the free world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020