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“I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.”

Thinking World Needs Games Sports Term Century Media Humble Life Or Death

Author:Tim Tebow

“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.”

“First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.”

World Firsts Ideas Actors Term Space Objects Personality Flow Imaginary Representation

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.”

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Book:Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?

Source: Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?

“Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.”

World Christian America Evil Term Greater Western Good And Evil Western Society

Book:Who are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity

Source: Who are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity

“You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.”

“Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.”

World Mind Real Term Fields Behavior Conscious Built Metaphor Real World Vocabulary Subjective Conscious Mind Analog

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking.”

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Author:Michio Kushi

“To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.”

World Needs Long Country Term Party Effort Practice Successful Draws Corruption Valuable Around The World Long Term Heritage Foreign Countries

Author:Xi Jinping

“Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.”

World Done Bigs Stuff Term Loss Accepting Higher Demand Gains Strategy Distance Celebrate Hills Valleys Tolerate Short Term Crossings Halt Stagnation Big Stuff

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.”

People World Bits Term Objects Paint Derision

Author:Stella Vine

“Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns.”

“Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Any other teaching about the origin and makeup of the universe is so alien to the intentions of the Bible, which does not wish to teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can't exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Country Today Social Term Talking Economy Products Percent Capitalism Gross Breakdown World Economy Developed Country Gross Domestic Product

Author:James Wolfensohn

“Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.”

World Feels Years May Reason Moments Lasts Sports Term Born Lucky Obvious Get Up Timing Right Place Right Moment Jocks

Author:Bob Cousy

“Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and I'm excited to be part of it. In terms of Heroes it's been such an amazing journey on that show. I love working on it and at this point I know I'm coming to Asia and some of the other cast are going to Europe for the world tour to release the DVD.”

Thinking Knows World Littles Play Character Shows Term Journey Sweet Hero Approach Europe Casts Excited Release Asia Dvds Marigolds

Author:Ali Larter

“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”

World Way Self Reason Values Belief Term Doubt Atheism Essentials Logic Method Errors Atheist Checks Deception Agreement Inquiry Self Deception Scientific Method

Author:Richard Carrier

“Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them according to his understanding. Finally, out of the sum total of the meanings that he has deduced from his contacts with numerous single objects of his environment there grows a unified view of the world into which he finds himself "thrown" (to use an existentialist term again) and this view is of the third order.”

Men World Use Order Grows Understanding Term Views Existence Environment Atheism Objects Thirds Positive Atheism Cease Contact Thrown Unified Existentialist

Author:Paul Watzlawick

“Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.”

World Long Term Liberty Security Depends Around The World Long Term

Author:George W. Bush

“Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.”

World Feels Trying Stuff Term Comedy Creation Like You Sells Pitching Proactive

Author:Anna Faris

“I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.”

People Thinking World Looks Black Term White Scary Shade Black And White Grey Shades Of Grey

Author:E. L. James

“I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like. I never thought of myself, at least as a little kid, in terms of being the onscreen talent. I always thought it'd be so much fun to write sketches and be a writer. Even as little as 6 or 7, that's what my main interest was.”

World Writing Littles Kids Wanted Fun Term Interest Comedy Talent I Realized Little Kid

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.”

Ifs Knows World Term Absolutes Finance Inches

Author:Stephen Harper

“To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.”

World Giving Seems Term Forests Overwhelming Dna Tropical Biochemistry

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both literally and metaphorically must be denounced in the strongest possible terms? It would seem so.”

World Seems Father Term Imagination Authority Consequence Innocent Strongest Confrontation Primal Semblance Brazen Displeasure

Author:Michael Leunig

“I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; World Music, Brit-pop, Classic Rock, Blues/Jazz, even the odd bit of Heavy metal.”

World Seems Bits Term Rocks Taste Jazz Heavy Pops Odd Classic Cycles Metals Phases Eclectic Heavy Metal Brits World Music Classic Rock Taste In Music Eclectic Style

Author:Rachel Miner

“Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.”

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.”

World Humans Body Easy Term Loses Plans Modern Walking Sight Sticks Symbols Human Body Modern World Umbrella Immediacy Handbags Walking Sticks

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.”

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses; In common use no more it means, we find, Than many fools in same opinions joined.”

Knows Men World Mean Use Term Common Opinion This World Fool Ten Ass Herds Precision

Book:The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan

Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan

“In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.”

“But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world; to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions; to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?”

Ifs Men World Believe Reason Facts Spiritual Term Goes On Personality Productions Rebellion Charming Fear Of Death Sturdy Time Goes On

Book:Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

“in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.”

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.”

World Country Term United States Office Percent Congress

Author:Jackie Speier

“Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our own country. The present economy generates wars to protect its profits and its short-term interests, while squandering the future. Unless we transform the economy, we cannot end war.”

World War Ends Country Term Interest Economy Democracy Economic Protect Economics Thirds Profit Short Term Transforming Third World Squandering

Author:Starhawk

“war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.”

Source: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

“The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra parts jumbled in from other puzzles make it almost impossible to assemble. But in Ghost, Fred Burton manages to join together enough pieces to give us a discerning look at that world. This is a story, told in human terms, that will help make sense of the great puzzle of our times.”

“In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.”

World Littles Different Inspiration America Literature Term Europe Native Latin Native American Geography Latin America Little Knowledge

Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir

“Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.”

“I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.”

Thinking Knows World Trying Sometimes Stories Reality Seems Moving Term Quality Taken Goes On Mood Discovering

Author:Brian Evenson

“A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.”

World Looks Certain Term Natural Fields Eating Historian Cows Corn Natural World

Author:Michael Pollan

“Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it has proven impossible to find any consistent way to visualize the world underlying quantum theory in terms of our pictures in the everyday world. The general conclusion is that in quantum theory naive realism, although necessary at the level of observations, fails at the microscopic level.”

Thinking World Way Whole Term Levels Impossible Failing Theory Everyday Physics Conclusion Observation Consistent Quantum Realism Proven Naive Quantum Physics Compatible Quantum Theory

Author:Ravi Gomatam

“Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.”

Ifs World Way May Term Interesting Talent Ambition

Author:Eric Idle

“Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.”

“Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Ends Facts Motivational Lying Goal Term Creative Achieve Ultimate Deeds Treasure Rescue

Author:Francisco Leon

“I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know - secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time - that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.”

“There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.”

World Should Reason Nations Term Decades No Reason Prosperous

Author:Joe Biden

“The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.”

World Today Faces Term Challenges Brotherhood

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.”

World Seems Today Term Rooms Technology Nuclear Debate Sane Behalf American Politics Beam Hysterical Lasers Eerie

Author:David Talbot

“The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.”

World Force Black Term Church Wonderful Wonderful Things Black Church

Author:Cornel West

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