World Quotes
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My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.
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A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
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Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
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So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.
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The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
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Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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World history is tragic.
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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.
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Nelson wonders why, no matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong – you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.
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Yoko Ono was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.
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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair. I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
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The world of technology is the sum total of what people do. Its redemption can only come from changes in what people, individually and collectively, do or refrain from doing. —Ursula M. Franklin
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The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.
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When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.
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Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
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I like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world.
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In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane.
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We're losing touch with ourselves in the technological world, and it is increasingly important to take time out.
