- Myself
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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
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
- External World
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a driverless car looks out on the world, it's not able to distinguish the age of a pedestrian or the number of occupants in a car.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singapore is likely to be the world's first market for self-driving cars. Commercial services around self-driving vehicles will likely be in Singapore before they are anywhere else in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
To the extent that trolley problem scenarios exist in the real world, AVs will make them rarer, not more frequent.
- Diplomats
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- Nov 07, 2020
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
- Nov 07, 2020
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
- Sexuality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020