Agatha Christie Quotes
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
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I have a soul that like an ample shieldCan take in all, and verge enough for more.
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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
