Our World Quotes - Page 3

• Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

  Eliot Engel

  America, United States, Racist

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• God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

  James Dobson

  Views, Election, Select

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• So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

  Carl Sagan

  Expectations, Ambitious, Purpose

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.54, Penguin

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• Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Laughter, Bombs, Paper

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.106, Penguin

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• Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

  Hugo Chavez

  Believe, Government, Needs

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• I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

  David Chalmers

  Character, Thinking, Law

  "Zombies and consciousness". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. September 10, 2011.

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• In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

  A. S. Byatt

  Brain, Mind, Botox

  "Soul searching" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2004.

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• This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Needs, Ends, Circumstances

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• Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

  Alton Brown

  Ice, Take Me, Fascinating

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• There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!

  Brandon Boyd

  Ocean, Moving, Spinning Around

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• What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

  Gary Hamel

  Church, Internet, Resilient

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• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Thinking, Division

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• I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

  Taylor Swift

  World Issues, Trying, Articles

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• Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said sadly. "So they are," John Rowlands said. His voice deepened a little, louder and clearer than it had been. "But when the battles between you and your adversaries are done, Will Stanton, in the end the fate of all the world will depend on just those people, and on how many of them are good or bad, stupid or wise. And indeed it is all so complicated that I would not dare foretell what they will do with their world. Our world.

  Susan Cooper

  Wise, Stupid, Fate

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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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• Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Uprising, Names

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.247, Vintage

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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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• 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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• If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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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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• 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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• I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.

  Joan Jett

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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• There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.

  William George Jordan

  Simple, Escaping, Relaxation

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Honesty, Hero

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• Sweetie, in our world, fair’s got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It’s why we’re all willing to kill each other off without flinching. (Solin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Winning, Willing, Fairs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.301, Macmillan

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