- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
In D&D, you're only in that fantasy world. But with GURPS, you can, like, play a game that's Los Angeles film noir, or a game where the premise is you are world-jumpers, and you can go to different worlds.
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It's an absurd world - you know, billionaires in Birkenstocks. But I'd rather have nerdy tech guys as the next Carnegie than oil tycoons.
- Governs
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And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.
- Football
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Football is the best team sport in the world, and it is good to hear that more and more kids are playing football in India.
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For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
- Changed
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
- Dramatic
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And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
- Change The World
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
- Eyes
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Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
- Good Opinion
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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- Nov 07, 2020