- Ideas
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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
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
- Any Other Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the country is going to be great, everybody has a gift, and I tell every child I meet, whether they have asked me or not, 'You have greatness inside you, and your job is to figure out what that is, dig it out, and give it to the world. Because the world needs everything, every one of you.'
- Lips
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- Nov 07, 2020