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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
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020