- Camper
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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
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I really took in in India was that people - even in the slums - were happy with what they'd got. That's something we're not good at in the Western world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expanding access to decent work opportunities is the most effective way to increase labor-market participation, lift people out of poverty, reduce inequality, and drive economic growth. It should be at the center of policymaking. The alternative is a dog-eat-dog world in which too many will feel left out.
- Better Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very conscious of the world being this very crazed place that demanded explanation. I didn't see a whole lot of people who looked like me doing it on television.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe if we only are talking to people who agree with us, we are failing in some way to understand our world and our country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020