- Heart
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st century, too. But it won't happen without sustained pressure on politicians from electorates.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in world domination. I'm interested in running a nice little brand that takes care of its own and does really good work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'
- Nov 07, 2020
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.
- Dubious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know a country in the world that doesn't have borders and doesn't want to know who is coming into their country.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020