- Great
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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.
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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n' roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
- Conclude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with success, it stands forth an example to the world and exhibits the proudest triumph of reason and philosophy.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.
- Brightest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
- Applause
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- Nov 07, 2020
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
- Few Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments.
- Emblem
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020