World Quotes
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For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
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I'm kind of in my own world.
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Meaningless piety, she knew – but to be always meaningful makes a cold world.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.
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For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
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Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.
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I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion
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The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.
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As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.
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To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.
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Learning the structure of the world around us and forming lasting social relationships are both lifelong tasks.
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Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
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We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.
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I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
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The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.
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The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.
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Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.
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I think that the intentions are genuine in the search for authenticity, but it can tip over into absurdity so quickly. I just start to wonder, like, what authenticity even is, and whether we can even start to define it in such a globalized world.
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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
