- Limits
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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
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020