- Music
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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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real danger they will take even less, unless they are vigilant and robust about protecting their own interests.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is the most entertaining game in the world to watch because it's end to end with lots of things happening.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf is one of the greatest games in the world, not just on the course but what it can teach you off the course, the morals, stuff like that.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.
- Frogs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things the weirder the better. The idea I could eat things like snails or frogs legs or things like that was mind-blowingly cool.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Good Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
- End Of The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020