World Quotes
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I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don’t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.
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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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Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation.
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Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.
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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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A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.
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I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
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Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.
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Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.
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The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love.
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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
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When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.
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I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.
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May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
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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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If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.
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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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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.
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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
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Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exemption...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.
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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.
