Our World Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

  Tony Blair

  History, Evil, Tragedy

  Statement, 11 Sept. 2001

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• The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the world of Shakespeare (or Aeschylus or Racine) is totally different from our world; and yet any human being can look through the differences in dress and mores and discover our common problems, passions, and potentials.

  Howard Gardner

  Passion, Common Humanity, Differences

  Source: howardgardner.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Years, Momentum

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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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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• 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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• 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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• If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Identity, Way, Becoming

  Source: www.hbook.com

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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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• From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.

  Richard Bach

  Fun, Eye, Dark

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• Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.

  Richard Bach

  Struggle, Artist, Reality

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• Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

  Max Lucado

  Book, Long Ago, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• We are creatures like everything else in our world.

  Mordicai Gerstein

  World, Creatures

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Sight, Together

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.163, Paulist Press

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• For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.

  Henry Miller

  Crazy, Men, Air

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Attitude, Play

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• This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

  David Almond

  Light, Joy, Darkness

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• Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

  William Golding

  Ideas, Three, Violence

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• Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Thinking, Cynical

  "The Rich Boy" (1926)

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• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  H. G. Wells

  Evil, Literature, Wildness

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.57, H. G. Wells

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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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