- History
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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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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith in dicta. A brief experience on the bench was enough to reveal to me all sorts of cracks and crevices and loopholes in my own opinions when picked up a few months after delivery and reread with due contrition.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world should be very clear about making sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, period.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020