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World Quotes
"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
145
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
145
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
136
"China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world."
131
"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
120
"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."
117
"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
112
"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."
111
"The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan."
106
"I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils."
104
"We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan."
103
"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."
102
"I feel great identification with the developing world."
99
"I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely."
99
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
93
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
83
"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
82
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
71
"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
70
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
69
"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
67
"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go."
65
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
65
"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."
63
"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
61
"I won't stop caring about the world, even if it looks stupid."
60
"Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'."
59
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
57
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
55
"Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world."
55
"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
55
"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
53
"Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world."
53
"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
52
"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
51
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