- God
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020