- Me
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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
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shouldn't one of the goals of prison be getting as many of the inmates as possible back out into the world to be responsible citizens? Aren't we just wasting generations of human potential by keeping over two million people behind bars?
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city, being covered with cement and buildings and streets. No more country. No more woods.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go five steps in the garden, and I immediately lose track of time... it is a kind of joy in being alive in being in the world. I always found that in the garden. That is what it means to me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020