- American
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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that's an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just don't. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knows how many times I'm going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard it is to get there.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my final semester at Yale in December of 2013, I made a scary choice. Instead of looking for work - feeling over-read and underweight - that for a few months I would go wherever the wind carried me. I would become a student of the world, and I would eat.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.
- Eisenhower
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- Nov 07, 2020
Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world.
- Nov 07, 2020
As I travel around the world, I'm realizing that every place I go influences me in some kind of way.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020