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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know where this thing about me being a travel writer comes from. It's nothing to do with me; I hate travel writing. I don't do it - I do it a little bit, but not much. I don't believe in it. I think it's over. The world is so saturated now that you don't need it.
- Cliffs
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- Nov 07, 2020
One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages. They are not easy places to visit, and this was a completely unknown corner of the world economy: children slaving away on desert cliffs to furnish wealthy collectors in San Francisco.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and the desert, the shabby colonial world, is brought right into your consciousness without being over-explained.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite whisky bar in the world is in my adopted Bangkok. A refined and secretive Japanese speakeasy among the girly bars of Soi 33, it's called Hailiang.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
- Foreign Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
- Incomprehensible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
- Smile
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
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- Nov 07, 2020