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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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- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
- Dedication
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- Nov 07, 2020
On behalf of all Americans, I would like to congratulate Michelle Smith on her dedication and determination which have made her a wonderful role model for all young athletes in Ireland and around the world.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
- Fictive
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to.
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020