- 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
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.
- Codes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.
- Necessity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
- Coordinate
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
- Nov 07, 2020
The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did whole Latin albums and it was like Beatlemania for me in the Latin world, the screaming girls, not being able to leave the hotel, at the airport met by screaming fans. That was something!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. My mother is Irish-American, and my father is Afro-Panamanian, so it's kind of been the story of my life to be a bridge between different cultures and different styles, and musically, that's between jazz and R&B.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020