- Power
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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
- Frivolous
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.
- Arbitrary Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
- Exert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.
- Encompassing
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020