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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In regard to criticism, we are in the world of football and subject to continuous criticism.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always obsessed with the 'Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,' this weird little cult movie. There was this promised sequel before the end credits - 'Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League' - and I knew instinctively they were never going to make that movie, because the first one had made, like, $8 at the box office.
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