- External World
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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
- Conceive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I bring to light a company that's poisoning customers, defrauding investors, or something like that... there just aren't enough regulators in the world to keep up with all of the fraud and malfeasance that goes on out there, particularly in the little nooks and crannies of the market.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing.
- Corporate World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.
- Sad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very artistic and creative, disorganised - ambitious, I would say, if that even makes sense. I'm definitely not the most mathematical person in the world; not scientific. I can't even work out a tip; it's really sad. But I've always thought, play up your strengths and let someone else handle your weaknesses. It's OK. Work together.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020