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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
- Fiction Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no doubt that Republican control of the Senate is the only way to preserve the Constitutional integrity of our Supreme Court, realign our military's force structure, and ensure the basic freedoms and liberties that make ours the greatest country in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, hands down, the number one person I would love to have in a video is Beyonce. I think the perfect video for me - I could die happy and I could never make a YouTube video again - would be to do a video called 'Bey-Oz-ce' and mix 'The Wizard of Oz' and Beyonce together because those are my two favorite things in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't single out Facebook as a concern, because we've got different local competitors around the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In one sense, Facebook is very focused as an address book, as efficient communication. It's like e-mail or like IM or something like that. And we do those things, too, but we do so much more. We try to focus on the whole world and all the things that people are interested in, rather than just people to people, or one to one communication.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, when someone's going to pick up a game, it can be a bit daunting, like if they haven't played a roleplaying game, or they haven't played things in the series. We spent a lot of time on flow. How it feels to move through the world. How the game rewards you depending on which way you turn.
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- Nov 07, 2020