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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what initially attracts many kids to trains are the 'cool' things: strength, size, agency, speed. But trains also operate within a world of systems, schedules, codes, and fine distinctions. Enter the geeks. What I personally love most about trains is that they are transporting, that they take us places - literally and otherwise.
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- Nov 07, 2020