Our World Quotes - Page 6

• Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

  Sam Harris

  God, Apollo, Way

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you want our world-known names, you can't have them unless you own the Nintendo machine.

  Satoru Iwata

  Names, Machines, Nintendo

  "Sony, Nintendo pumped to beat the Xbox". www.cnn.com. May 17, 2001.

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• And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Children, Home, Tired

  Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.156, Ronin Publishing

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• Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.

  Tony Evans

  Adversity, Men, Needs

  Tony Evans (2012). “Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream”, p.10, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character".

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• I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Reading, Thinking, Rocks

  "Therapy in Reverse: An Interview with Barbara Kingsolver". Interview with Mia Lipman, www.omnivoracious.com. December 27, 2012.

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• Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape, a large-sized gorilla. It was in vain that I told myself I was losing my reason: I could entertain not the slightest doubt as to his species. But an encounter with a gorilla on the planet Soror was not the essential outlandishness of the situation. This for me lay in the fact that the ape was correctly dressed, like a man of our world, and above all that he wore his clothes in such an easy manner.

  Pierre Boulle

  Lying, Animal, Men

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• Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

  Maya Angelou

  Peace, Looks, Speak

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem”, p.35, Schwartz & Wade

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• I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Cutting, People

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• My challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible. My why is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them so that together we can change our world. That's why I wake up every single day. I'm agnostic to the form it takes: I teach, I write, I speak, I advise.

  Simon Sinek

  Writing, Together We Can, Long

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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• Nanotechnology is really interesting to me. Stuff to sort of make our world a better place, and a cleaner place, through science. And it also explains things that are happening. I've always been into it.

  Jessica Alba

  Interesting, Stuff, Nanotechnology

  Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 29, 2008.

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• In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Looks, Able

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Real, War, Understanding

  "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.

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• I believe our world desperately needs Good News.

  Rob Bell

  Believe, Needs, News

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• The resurrection confronts our world with wonder, mystery, and miracles.

  Rob Bell

  Miracle, Mystery, Resurrection

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• As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Unique, Creative

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• I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some say, we create our own reality, I always demur and say, "Please, would you mind adjusting that a little bit? We create our own appearances." We become master of appearances and as we change our thought, we will see the appearances around us change. That gives us this huge sense of dominion and power and control over our world.

  Richard Bach

  Reality, Light, Giving

  Source: rbach.proboards.com

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• The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

  Gillian Sorensen

  Unesco, United Nations, Making Peace

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• There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

  Pam Grier

  Creativity, Reality, Creative

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• It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who are weak, rejected, marginalized, counted as useless, who can become a source of life and of salvation for us as individuals as well as for our world. And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to communion, to compassion and to community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Compassion, People

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• For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

  Krista Tippett

  Names, Voice, Cameras

  Krista Tippett (2008). “Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It”, p.22, Penguin

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• Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Looks, Violence, Newspapers

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

  Lana Del Rey

  Appreciation, Mistake, Race

  "Paradise Lost: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with Lisa Blanning, www.electronicbeats.net. 2013.

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• The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting. But what they have in common is that they're both ways to tap into the mysterious parts of our world.

  Steve Weinstein

  Philosophy, Teaching, Way

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• Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Paris, Leader, Climate

  "Institutions worth $2.6 trillion have now pulled investments out of fossil fuels" by Damian Carrington, Emma Howard, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2015.

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