- Meetings
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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
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've flown halfway around the world to kiss a girl. I jumped on a plane and flew to Australia.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a regular, avid 'Bones' fan, but I'd certainly seen it. I liked the banter; I liked the people and that world.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.
- Mortality
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant in terms of the world and life, and then do something ludicrous and absurd.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020