World Quotes
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World change comes from within.
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I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.
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Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute.
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The city had grown, implacably, spreading its concrete and alloy fingers wider every day over the dark and feral country. Nothing could stop it. Mountains were stamped flat. Rivers were dammed off or drained or put elsewhere. The marshes were filled. The animals shot from the trees and then the trees cut down. And the big gray machines moved forward, gobbling up the jungle with their iron teeth, chewing it clean of its life and all its living things. Until it was no more. Leveled, smoothed as a highway is smoothed, its centuries choked beneath millions and millions of tons of hardened stone. The birth of a city... It had become the death of a world.
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What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.
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In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.
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I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.
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The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
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And other spirits there are standing apartUpon the forehead of the age to come;These, these will give the world another heart,And other pulses. Hear ye not the humOf mighty workings in a distant mart?Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb.
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World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world.
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I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
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Faith is more important than terra firma, that it has to be, for the material world is full of trials and tribulations, transgressions against body and soul, against our right to any piece of this country.
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How we treat food is how we treat ourselves. Eating and buying organic means we're committed to a healthier world overall. It's good karma.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
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For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.
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We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.
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My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.
