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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 don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to show the world that even if you go through some bad periods, you always have to think positive just to go forward.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing nicer than playing in a World Cup against France, England, or Spain. There is nothing nicer than instead of playing a friendly, you can play a game where, if you win, you can make history.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the defender I respect the most is Giorgio Chiellini. He's one of the best defenders in the world. I really like the way he plays football on the pitch, the way he defends. He lives for the game. He transmits a sense of tranquillity to his team-mates. I have always admired his way to play.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020