World Quotes
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I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
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If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.
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In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.
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The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
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In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
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The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.
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The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.
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The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.
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Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.
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The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid
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I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of being loose in the world. So, I try to do a little bit of research, just so that I can feel like I'm grounded, but then I try to bring as much of my human understanding that I can, under the filter of it being 1865.
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A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
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Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
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Each set of woes can be left behind in a folder in a drawer at the end of the day. Whereas in the outside world there is no end of obligation, no protection from the needs and grief of others.
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The world wasn't going to go away. Ever.
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The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
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We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.
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There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
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Somebody once observed - and the observation did him credit, whoever he was -that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping.
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My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
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The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
