- History
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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Falling Skies' is not just about aliens attacking. It's also about humanity, survival, hope and the determination to rebuild our world, starting from pretty much nothing.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.
- Disenchantment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020