- Conflict
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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
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very blessed in a lot of ways. I can buy what I want, and I can go anywhere in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
- Laptop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020