World Quotes
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Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier, it makes the world healthier, it makes the economy healthier.
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May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.
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What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.
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Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
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I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.
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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
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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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None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
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They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
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I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
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Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.
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Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable...
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
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I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.
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Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
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The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.
