- Learning
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.
- Nov 07, 2020
We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States has the best intelligence-gathering operation in the world. We should provide a greater level of training and assistance to the E.U. to help them develop a more robust counter-terrorism platform.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation, in a short quarter-millennium, catapulted itself to global preeminence by solving the world's greatest problems and exporting those solutions to the rest of the world.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's reputation is based on its ability to deliver the world big, Earth-changing solutions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life.
- Fantasy World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most of the Washington foreign policy establishment exists in a fantasy world when it comes to Syria. They fundamentally don't understand that Russia and Iran, from the beginning, had much more at stake in Syria than the United States did. Russia and Iran were going to do everything possible in order to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think progressives understand that we are Americans at the same time as we are global citizens. We are interested first and foremost in creating peace and prosperity here at home, but we aren't blind to the fact that injustice anywhere in the world is meaningful, important, and worth thinking about.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help shepherd Pat Conroy's 'Beach Music' into the world.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.
- Karma
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being on tour. That's the best job in the world, if only I had a different body.
- Darth
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- Nov 07, 2020