Our World Quotes - Page 12

• As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

  Tony Judt

  Thinking, Citizens, Looks

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.114, Penguin

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• What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

  Alicia Keys

  Heart, Suffering, Needs

  "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2013.

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• A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  May, Satisfaction, Apes

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• I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don't work - they cease to matter.

  Joshua Mohr

  Writing, Past, Events

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All evangelists want to do is share a message about the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God. But our world is confused by the confidence we have in the gospel, and is threatened by it. Satan, I am sure, causes those things to echo in the world to increase this sort of common confusion.

  Mark Dever

  Confused, Echoes, Confusion

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.

  Conor Oberst

  Mean, Kids, Insecure

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• Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

  Tom Robbins

  Air, Water, Molecules

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• Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Past, Years

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• If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

  William Shatner

  Clean, Achieve, Warp

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• As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Differences, Doubt, Suspicious

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• I do believe that we are living in the last days. I know this has been said before but there are events happening in our world right now that, to me, are what we call signs of the times.

  Greg Laurie

  Believe, Lasts, Events

  "Greg Laurie: Watered-Down Mainline Christianity Is a Sign of the End Times (Interview)". Interview with Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

  Daniel Handler

  Powerful, Doe, Elements

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• The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that we will experience in future rebirths will be the outcome of the karma that we share with the other beings living there. The actions of each of us, human or nonhuman, have contributed to the world in which we live. We all have a common responsibility for our world and are connected with everything in it.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Buddhist, Responsibility

  Dalai Lama (2009). “For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.

  Susan Jeffers

  Children, Growing Up, Live Life

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• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Dance, Art, Aggravation

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Civilization, Loving You

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• Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By its nature love is enduring. Again, dear friends, we catch a further glimpse of how much the Holy Spirit offers our world: love which dispels uncertainty; love which overcomes the fear of betrayal; love which carries eternity within; the true love which draws us into a unity that abides!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Betrayal, Love Is

  Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Vigil with The Young People, w2.vatican.va. July 19, 2008.

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• One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking free is the root of achieving peace in our world.

  Sami Al-Arian

  Freedom, Thinking, Roots

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

  Veronica Roth

  Feels, Breaths, Massive

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• I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Thinking, Land

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• It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that had all the good lines, therefore all the good laughs, all the great moments- the men, who had joined us to sit on stage, started squirming rather uncomfortably. And got really bored. Because they weren't used to being the supporting cast. It was fascinating to feel their discomfort, to discuss it with them afterwards when they said, 'It's boring to play the girl role.' And I said, 'Yeah. Yeah, ya think? Welcome to our world.'

  Olivia Wilde

  Girl, Bad Ass, Men

  "Olivia Wilde Just Dropped Some Serious Knowledge On How The Media Can Empower Women" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2014.

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• It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, and the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - none of which were inspired by religion. If we want to understand the dangers of our world, we can no longer accept the old received ideas.

  Karen Armstrong

  War, Ideas, Two

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, Attitude, Warrior

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• Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This fact can neither be shaken nor confirmed by any historical discovery. It is the solid foundation of Christianity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Albert Schweitzer (2005). “Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings”

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