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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
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Zack Snyder's 'Dawn of the Dead' and '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later.' I would love to be involved with a film that shows the breakdown of society and a small group of survivors in a world that has crumbled. That's something I would like to explore.
- Downplay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
- Forced
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
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- Nov 07, 2020