- Giving
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them a sense of identity - to be able to read texts that chimes with their own world, corrals thoughts, and connects with the emotional conflicts of growing up.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.
- Brag
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- Nov 07, 2020