- Honor
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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
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of heartbroken, anxious people that thought better of their country. We're heartbroken by how far Trump has gotten to the most powerful position in the world.
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020