- Nature
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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
- Galileo
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a good police officer is one of the most difficult, dangerous, idealistic jobs in the world.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted title in sports. Everyone knew who the heavyweight champion was. And not only when it was Muhammad Ali or Rocky Marciano: they knew when it was Ingemar Johansson.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three of my childhood dreams went unfulfilled. I never saw a no-hitter, never saw a triple play, and never caught a ball that had been hit into the stands. But I did see the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a World Series game when I was 10.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when the heavyweight champion was a fighter of limited ability, he was still the heavyweight champion of the world.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to that place. We take a different perspective everywhere we work - our passion is public projects, wherever they are.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially when you've become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020