- Generation
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1890s was a decade when life began to change in urban America. Modern conveniences that we now take for granted came into use; women's roles became less restrictive; and San Francisco, a port city with influences from all over the world, was a lively place in which to reside.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a believer that if you bring children into this world, then you have a responsibility to do your best and support and guide them until the day you die.
- Mafia
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered that the world of the finest restaurants was something akin to the world of the Mafia.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important that you don't start thinking about your life after football when you are 33 or 34. There are many more amazing things in this world, and it's important to think about these things before you retire.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have played the World Cup qualifiers on the left wing, and that position suits me fine.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to play at the World Cup.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
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- Nov 07, 2020