- Important
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has not changed is people are still doing whatever they think they can get away with. I think there's still a lot of advancement for people, generally speaking, to learn to let other people live in the world with freedom.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my knowledge, there are, pretty much, two ways to be interesting: One is to actually do interesting things, achieve the remarkable. The other way to be interesting is to be interested, curious about the world and about other people - not relentlessly revelatory about yourself.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.
- Least
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- Nov 07, 2020
The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
No longer is a geek identifiable by a pale complexion, black-rimmed glasses, a bowling shirt that says 'Nerd World Order.' No, geeks are everywhere. And they're cool!
- Nov 07, 2020
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.
- Cathedrals
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- Nov 07, 2020