- Challenges
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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
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have to talk about your problems.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is the Wild West of the world, where anybody can throw anything down. Everything can be as relevant as the next thing; it doesn't matter who posts it. In that environment, the Critics' Choice is still very important.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas control the world.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020