Our World Quotes - Page 20

• Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

  Philippe Sollers

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Struggle, Class, Years

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world and Communism, the temptation to imitate totalitarian security methods must be resisted day by day... When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

  Earl Warren

  Wisdom, Struggle, Rights

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• I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same fountain of faith. The world we experience together is one world, God's world, and our world, and the problems we share are common human problems. So we can talk together, try to understand each other, and help each other.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  House, Community, Trying

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• I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Compassion, People

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• If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world. They pass through it, the place where dimensions touch, where there are many worlds present.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Dimensions

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• Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Faces, Incredibles, Economic

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• We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.

  Chuck Norris

  Would Be, Today, Prejudice

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings.

  Joanna Macy

  Nature, Fear, Anger

  Joanna Macy, Norbert Gahbler (2006). “Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World”, p.105, Parallax Press

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• We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Poverty, Failing

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

  George Eliot

  Christian, Attitude, Lying

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• we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Tired, Cynical, Feelings

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high.

  David Lynch

  Together, Problem, Consciousness

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.

  George Clooney

  Running, Nice, Mean

  "The Ides of March - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Hands, Life And Death, Forever

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Records, Care

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• Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Together, Sacred, Life Is

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• Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Self, May

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.98, Baker Academic

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• The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

  Jacinto Benavente

  Simplicity, Size, Masters

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• Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Mean, Practice, Energy

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• We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

  Dora Russell

  Knowledge, Quests, Want

  "Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell, Vol. 3, Ch. 14, 1985.

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• The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization and decentralization, the economic pieces of the future are being assembled in a new way. Not what is produced by a country or in a country will be of importance, but the production within global Economic Domains, measured as Gross Domain Products. The global market demands a global sharing of talent. The consequence is Mass Customization of Talent and education as the number one economic priority for all countries

  John Naisbitt

  Education, Country, Numbers

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• We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

  Gabor Mate

  Responsibility, Mind, May

  Gabor Mate, M.D. (2009). “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction”, p.396, Knopf Canada

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• One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?

  Morgan Freeman

  Crazy, Design, Mind

  "Morgan Freeman Takes You 'Through The Wormhole'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.

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• Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

  Nina Berberova

  Rooms, Literature, Theory

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