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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.
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- Nov 07, 2020