- Flatters
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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
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.
- Nov 07, 2020
In a world of global competition and new technology, I think competition is coming from new places.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020