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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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.
- Nov 07, 2020
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's pretty cool to see the people I'm reaching throughout the entire world. It's special.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was in the First World War.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020