World Quotes
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
M. John Harrison
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He didn’t like concentrated responsibility. Agreement with other people who he thought were good, right minded, and trying to do the right thing by the world was almost as necessary to him as air to breathe.
Frances Perkins
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To stay young,
Nanao Sakaki
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And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.
Knut Hamsun
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We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.
Angela Davis
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There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.
Daniel Barenboim
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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
Tony Bennett
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I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.
Jennifer Doudna
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We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.
Alexander Stille
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The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!
Chris Evans
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The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
Liu Xiaobo
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In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.
Hayley Kiyoko
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Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
Jane Smiley
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.
Agnes Martin
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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
Babe Ruth
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If this government wants to be fair dinkum, then it must stop kowtowing to financial markets, international organisations, world bankers, investment companies and big business people. The Howard government must become visionary and be prepared to act, even at the risk of making mistakes.
Pauline Hanson
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Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
Christy Turlington
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Nas is such a touchstone in my world.
Daniel Kaluuya
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We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
A. Theodore Tuttle
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Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'
Kris Allen
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My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
Kristin Hersh
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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Doing processing locally has its advantages. For instance, the cost of an endpoint CPU and memory is a 1000x cheaper than the cost of CPU and memory in the server. And in many places around the world, connectivity and transmission costs are sometimes far more expensive than the device.
Peter Levine
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British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
Margaret Heffernan