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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything commodity-like will be sold online. The world is going to trade commodities like it trades stocks.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apart from the scientific interest attached to my various journeyings, it has been made clear to me that human needs and aspirations differ little the world over and that no great difficulties arise in one race dealing with another when matters of scientific importance are involved.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial to education, and both traditional and new media are more important than ever.
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- Nov 07, 2020