- Generation
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deadnettle is the Punxsutawney Phil of the plant world: short of stature but stout of heart. At the first hint of winter's wane, its stem rises from the ground, and a green, grasping hand of sepals unclenches to divulge two silky-white petals, one of which unfurls straight up toward the sky.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all professors, I also do a lot of extra jobs for which I was never trained, such as advising former students as they navigate the wider world.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020