- My Life
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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
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and that Lloyd George had capitulated to the vengeful French.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.
- Greater Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs, from greater understanding of ourselves and our world to answers about what to do.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.
- Diplomats
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- Nov 07, 2020
American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding issues left over from World War I, and Washington took the lead in negotiating naval limitations in the Pacific.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The range of weapons at the disposal of military powers is terrifying in its capacity to damage the world and its inhabitants, perhaps even to bring humanity's long story to its end.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are artists the canaries in the mine, warning of the coming explosion before anyone else? It's hard to look at the world before 1914 and not wonder if they somehow felt a catastrophe was bearing down on them and their societies.
- Cubism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cubism of Braque or Picasso, the dissonant compositions of Schoenberg or Stravinsky, the free-flowing and often erotic choreography of Isadora Duncan and Nijinsky - these were acts of rebellion against the certainties and traditions of the old world.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020