- Nation
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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
- Corporate World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the presumption is, for some reason, anybody who comes from the business or the corporate world is corrupt.
- Extending
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are extending basic training. It'll be the longest and toughest in the world.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
- Game Show
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, summers stretched so long, as if they'd never end. Days were like marathons of time, riding bikes until my blisters had blisters, endless energy, and not an actual care in the world aside from when 'Paul' could come out and play. Days now feel more like minutes, almost game show like.
- Nov 07, 2020
The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to stand up for some things in this world.
- Everglades
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Reg died and we first looked into getting a new dog, I was adamant we should pick up a mongrel from an animal-rescue shelter. It's not only that they're usually healthier and have better temperaments, they also fit with my world view - I prefer a ballpoint to a fountain pen, a barber to a hair stylist, and camping over glamping.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020