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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
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.
- Enrich
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
- Great Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020