Our World Quotes - Page 17

• To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Fire, Air

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6863, Delphi Classics

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• It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious it is. It is no coincidence that our awakening to the special nature of our world and to its uniquely balanced environment and its limitations coincided with our first glimpse of earth from outer space, through the eyes of astronauts, television cameras and photographic equipment.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Eye, Technology, Space

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• In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Buddhism, Discovery

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• I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Discovery, Support, Horizon

  "National Science Foundation funded climate change musical to tune of $700,000" by Perry Chiaramonte, www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

  Stuart Rose

  New York, Moving, Media

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

  Jose Canseco

  Looks, Critique, Ifs

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• Live Aid turned our world upside down.

  John Deacon

  World Upside Down, Aids, World

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• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Thinking, Views

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• Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Children, Animal, Men

  "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Apples, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.60

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• 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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• Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

  Gene Robinson

  Understanding God, Body, May

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• The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

  James Rollins

  Lying, Moving, Ability

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• When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren't aware of.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Past, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Knowledge, Science, Lost

  "Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology". Book by Mark Brake, 2012.

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• The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Views, Ideas, Outcomes

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• While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Rights, Views

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• As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Moving, Differences

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• Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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• Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

  Jay Samit

  People, World, Realizing

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• What I have to tell you is this: I am resolved that dancing is to be my path. I know that to be a dancer is to be considered in our world little more than a prostitute. But you cannot imagine what is happening here in Berlin. It is different back home, but in Europe dance is being reborn as something more than cheap entertainment by loose women.

  Wendy Buonaventura

  Home, Europe, Dancing

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• Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Shapes, Language, Consciousness

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• Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

  Mark Salzman

  Compassion, Justice, Understanding

  Mark Salzman (2007). “True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall”, p.155, Vintage

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