- Day
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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
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.
- Defeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Phil Taylor is in the field - no matter whether it's tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace - he is the man to beat.
- Deserts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020