World Quotes
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You're not changing the world at $500 million in revenue. You start making a true difference when you're doing billions in revenue.
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Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.
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For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.
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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.
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When the media attention switches away from this story onto the next thing that happens in the world, the circumstances will still be there.
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I encourage you to look at the world around you and think about how it works. My friends, you can go forth and make this world a better place.
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Now we can see why nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.
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This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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As there were black swans, though civilized people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them...The uniform experience, therefore, of the inhabitants of the known world, agreeing in a common result, without one known instance of deviation from that result, is not always sufficient to establish a general conclusion.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
