Our World Quotes - Page 21

• Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

  Dennis Hastert

  Needs, Lawmakers, Savvy

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• Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.

  Jon Heder

  Brother, Block, Thinking

  "Revenge Of The Nerd". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. March 27, 2007.

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• There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

  Hari Kunzru

  Religious, People, Use

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• I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

  Masiela Lusha

  Family, Leadership, Education

  Tolucan Times, October 27, 2010.

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• The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims.

  Henri Nouwen

  Healing, Thinking, Joy

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• Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

  Colleen Hanabusa

  Shapes, Recognition, Compensation

  "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• I believe there is a place where the restless souls wander. Burdened by the weight of their own sadness, they cannot enter heaven.... And so they wait, trapped between our world and the next, endlessly searching for a way to rid themselves of their pain- in the hope that somehow, someday they will be reunited with the ones they love. If two people really love each other, nothing can keep them apart.

  Sarah

  Pain, Believe, Sadness

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• One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence that our world was created by divine intention, that a god intercedes in human affairs, or that there is life after death. Religion is a hangover from humankind's timorous infancy; it's time for us to walk upright and unafraid, and to take charge of our own lives.

  Simon LeVay

  Religious, Hangover, Thinking

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• Everything that's happening in our world is a function of what is going on inside of people. We are violent in our minds. We are violent with one another. We walk past one another in the street and don't even look nor make eye contact - don't speak. We can be outraged about the missiles and the planes. I'm more outraged that somebody will walk past me in the street and not look me in the face and say good morning.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Morning, Eye, Past

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, Empowering, Intellectual

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• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Mother, Children, Dirty

  Opening Remarks at Press Event on Day of Seven Billion, www.un.org. October 31, 2011.

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• Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ourselves in a cultural and moral landscape that is disturbingly familiar, yet entirely new. As though granted a new beginning, Marcus renames the creatures of our world, questions who we are and who, as men and women, we might be. Notable American Women is a wonder book, pleasurable and provocative.

  Maureen Howard

  Moving, Book, New Beginnings

  "Notable American Women". Book by Ben Marcuso, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. March 19, 2002.

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• I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

  Brandi Carlile

  Country, Issues, Rocks

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• The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

  James T. Hubbell

  Art, Way, Foundation

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• Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

  Richard Matheson

  Profound, Survival, Danger

  Richard Matheson (1999). “The Path: A New Look At Reality”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.

  Bernard Beckett

  Men, Different, Quests

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• What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Reality, Views, Common

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• Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Believe, People, Broken

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• It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

  Alain de Botton

  Eye, Would Be, Looks

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.214, Pan Macmillan

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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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• Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Suffering, Normal

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• ... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.

  Hannah Arendt

  Religious, Loss, Afterlife

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Faith, Fear, Littles

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