Our World Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Eye, Artist, Reality

  "John Edgar Wideman Against the World" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 2017.

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• I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

  Imre Kertész

  Order, Sick, Atrocities

  "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

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• He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Air, America

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, People, Risk

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think the fans, if you want to actually learn about us, I think you have to go way more intricate than just what you see on TV, because that's whatever they want to report. But it's just so much going on, and when you talk about being in our world you have to understand we're individuals too. We're not just athletes. No, we're fathers, we're sons. So when you put us through a job shortage you take away everything that we built.

  Ray Lewis

  Jobs, Father, Athlete

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Remember, Forget, Should

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• From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

  Jose Saramago

  Garbage Disposal, Jam, Literature

  Jose Saramago's intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February 1992.

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• Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on...

  Laura Nyro

  Children, Long, Giving

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• As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

  Maria Konnikova

  Children, Information, Speed

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.

  Leslie What

  Memories, Remembrance, Ghost

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• What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

  Benjamin Carson

  Success, Important, Contribution

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Fighting, Trying

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• These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

  Robert Gilpin

  Character, Organization, Two

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.

  Max Horkheimer

  Reality, Men, Tasks

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.5, A&C Black

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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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• Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

  Tracie Bennett

  Beautiful, Black And White, Color

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• The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Running, Ecosystems, Weight

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• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Character, Thinking, People

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

  Leslie Moonves

  Horse, Hands, Tents

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• Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Needs, Way

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.

  Tony Blair

  Understanding, World

  "Religion-friendly democracy and democracy-friendly religion" by Tony Blair, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.

  Richard Leider

  Life, Moving, Passion

  Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.94, WaterBrook

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• Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

  James Hillman

  Moving, Ideas, Soul

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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