- Human
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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
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
- Animal World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president of the United States from the 1940s until 2017 was considered the leader of the free world - probably the most powerful person in the world - not simply in terms of America's military might but in terms of the moral authority of the president. Donald Trump has largely abdicated that.
- Business World
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Trump is doing what he can to act decisively. And if there's one thing most people have in mind in distinguishing the business world from the political world is that the CEO of a business can act decisively.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election?
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn toward social history, which meant the history of the voiceless and faceless. But the public at large never embraced the idea that these dead white guys should be abandoned.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into criminal justice because I want to learn more about the law, about what's going on in this world, and be a mentor to kids from where I'm from.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just hope we can find peace and justice and get back to getting better in this world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand what's going on in this world. But cops have to go home at the end of the day. They have a family. They have to go home, too.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020